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ERIC Number: EJ1489944
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 14
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1866-2625
EISSN: EISSN-1866-2633
Available Date: 2025-06-03
Dark Tetrad Personality Traits: An Analysis by Gender in Aggressors and Victims of School Bullying
School Mental Health, v17 n3 p847-860 2025
The present study was designed with the purpose of contributing to the existing scientific literature about the presence of Dark Tetrad personality traits--Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, and sadism--in aggressors and victims of school bullying, also taking into account the possible gender differences in both roles. The results, obtained by means of the Two-Way Multivariate Analysis of Variance, with a sample of participants made up of 2977 adolescents and aged between 11 and 17, indicated that adolescents with a higher participation in bullying behaviors and those that are highly victimized, obtained higher scores in the four Dark Tetrad traits. By gender, boys displayed higher scores in sadism, both in the bullying and victimization model. In addition, two interactions between victimization and gender were identified: Victimization was associated with higher comparative levels of Machiavellianism and narcissism in boys than in girls. These results suggest the need to include the study of these components of personality and gender in the understanding, prevention, and intervention in school bullying situations among adolescents.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Spain
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Author Affiliations: 1Miguel Hernández University of Elche, Department of Health Psychology, Elche (Alicante), Spain; 2University of Alicante, Department of Sociology II, Alicante, Spain