Citation

Davis AC, Farrell AH, Brittain H, Krygsman A, Arnocky S, Vaillancourt T. J. Res. Pers. 2022; 96: e104178.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104178

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Few have studied the longitudinal associations between the Dark Triad and bullying in youth and none have examined these relations using analytic techniques that permit separating between- from within-person variability. Random intercept cross-lagged panel modeling was used with three waves of data from a randomly selected sample of 514 Canadian adolescents aged 15-18 to assess the Dark Triad and bullying over time. Controlling for sex and parental education, at the between-person level, random intercepts for Machiavellianism and psychopathy correlated positively with bullying. At the within-person level, moment-to-moment stability was found for narcissism and Machiavellianism. Residual within-time correlations mirrored bivariate associations, indicating that Machiavellianism and psychopathy shared consistent links with bullying. Cross-lagged effects were found for both disposition- and perpetration-driven pathways.

Language: en

Keywords

Adolescence; Bullying perpetration; Dark Triad; Longitudinal; Random intercept cross-lagged panel model