The Dark Triad, Aggression and Jealousy
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Dark Triad, Aggression, Jealousy, non-offendersAbstract
Existing literature points to jealousy as a key factor of relationship dissatisfaction and violence, often leading to femicide. In order to identify personality traits predisposing to jealousy and violence, a non-offender sample (97 males and 103 females, average age 41.5 years) was probed with the Multidimensional Jealousy Scale, the Short Dark Triad and the AQ29 aggression questionnaire. Proneness to aggression was best predicted by psychopathy, and jealousy by narcissism. Machiavellianism was predictive of hostility but was not predictive of jealousy. Multiple regression revealed that psychopathy was negatively associated with emotional jealousy. Emotional jealousy was the only type of jealousy for which proneness to aggression was not associated. The data indicate that men were marked with psychopathy and proneness to physical violence, and women with anger and jealousy. A relatively weak predictive association between the Dark Triad and jealousy calls for further research involving variables beyond the scope of this study.
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