Dark Triads and relationship outcomes
Name: Goh Cheng Hooi
UIU ID: 300331688
Subject: Research Method 377
Dateline: 6/3/2015
Lecturer: Mr Lim
Dark triad has 3 distinctive personality traits; narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopath which are inter-correlated. This group of people tends to be manipulative, admiration seeking, high self sense of importance, and insensitive in social context. These personality traits are maladaptive and destructive which resulting the dark triads less likelihood in sustaining long term relationship. The purpose of this present paper is to investigate the role of dark triads’ personality structure in romantic relationship. It is hypothesized that the dark triads’ personality traits tend to have short …show more content…
Substantial physical attractiveness is needed for having short term mating as women will generally allocate more attention on facial and body figure attractiveness instead of personality traits The research hypothesized that high dark triads will be rated higher attractiveness to women compared to low dark triads.. There were 128 female participants to carry out the survey through online. The research was to test the degree of attractiveness of high and low dark triads’ personality traits. Big Five personality test acted as a control group which to represent low dark triads self descriptions. Many studies found that women are likely to choose “Bad Boys” particularly in short term mating where the dark traits have. These “Bad Boys” tend to have low degree in conscientious and neuroticisms but high in extraversion. High extraversion might be one of the reasons that make them attractive as they are able to market themselves and be initiative. As a conclusion, the study has proved that the dark triad personality traits are attractive for women but attractiveness is not linked with their extroversion and neuroticism, One of the limitations was the only student involved in this study and majority of students practice short term mating. They are still have not achieved mature thinking to make good decision making in mate selecting and this will caused generalization based on one types of populations. The study should have involved other category of populations such as working lady, housewife and business women. Other than that, Big Five personality test has limited types of personality traits where the study should involve variety of personality traits in determining attractiveness to women. Moreover, attractiveneess is correlated with the Big Five personality traits. It might
Name: Goh Cheng Hooi
UIU ID: 300331688
Subject: Research Method 377
Dateline: 6/3/2015
Lecturer: Mr Lim
Dark triad has 3 distinctive personality traits; narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopath which are inter-correlated. This group of people tends to be manipulative, admiration seeking, high self sense of importance, and insensitive in social context. These personality traits are maladaptive and destructive which resulting the dark triads less likelihood in sustaining long term relationship. The purpose of this present paper is to investigate the role of dark triads’ personality structure in romantic relationship. It is hypothesized that the dark triads’ personality traits tend to have short …show more content…
Substantial physical attractiveness is needed for having short term mating as women will generally allocate more attention on facial and body figure attractiveness instead of personality traits The research hypothesized that high dark triads will be rated higher attractiveness to women compared to low dark triads.. There were 128 female participants to carry out the survey through online. The research was to test the degree of attractiveness of high and low dark triads’ personality traits. Big Five personality test acted as a control group which to represent low dark triads self descriptions. Many studies found that women are likely to choose “Bad Boys” particularly in short term mating where the dark traits have. These “Bad Boys” tend to have low degree in conscientious and neuroticisms but high in extraversion. High extraversion might be one of the reasons that make them attractive as they are able to market themselves and be initiative. As a conclusion, the study has proved that the dark triad personality traits are attractive for women but attractiveness is not linked with their extroversion and neuroticism, One of the limitations was the only student involved in this study and majority of students practice short term mating. They are still have not achieved mature thinking to make good decision making in mate selecting and this will caused generalization based on one types of populations. The study should have involved other category of populations such as working lady, housewife and business women. Other than that, Big Five personality test has limited types of personality traits where the study should involve variety of personality traits in determining attractiveness to women. Moreover, attractiveneess is correlated with the Big Five personality traits. It might