The dark tetrad and trait emotional intelligence: latent profile analysis and relationships with PID-5 maladaptive personality trait domains

Fino, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5095-6014, Popușoi, S, Holman, AC, Blanchard, A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0449-0425, Iliceto, P and Heym, N ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2414-8854, 2023. The dark tetrad and trait emotional intelligence: latent profile analysis and relationships with PID-5 maladaptive personality trait domains. Personality and Individual Differences, 205: 112092. ISSN 0191-8869

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Abstract

Dark traits and emotional intelligence play a key role in contemporary personality theory. Still, the relationship between these models deserves clarification, especially regarding the latent profiles characterized by a mixture of traits from both models. The present research used a person-centred approach to explore the latent profiles derivable from dark traits measured through the Short Dark Tetrad (SD4; Jones & Paulhus, 2014) and trait emotional intelligence measured through Wong and Law's (2002) Emotional Intelligence Scale (WLEIS), in two non-clinical samples, from Romania (N = 311) and the UK (N = 222), respectively. We tested the invariance of the solution across the two samples, then how the emerging profiles relate to PID-5 maladaptive trait domains by using linear modeling. We found that a 3-profile solution represented the data best, with two profiles showing SD4 values close to the mean and comparatively high and low values across the WLEIS facets, respectively, whereas the third profile was characterized by high SD4 values and values of emotional intelligence close to the mean. Significant differences between the profiles were found in maladaptive personality trait domains. Implications for theory and research are discussed.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Personality and Individual Differences
Creators:	Fino, E., Popușoi, S., Holman, A.C., Blanchard, A., Iliceto, P. and Heym, N.
Publisher:	Elsevier
Date:	April 2023
Volume:	205
ISSN:	0191-8869
Identifiers:	Number Type 1634918 Other 10.1016/j.paid.2023.112092 DOI
Rights:	© 2023 The Authors This is an open access article under the CC BY licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Linda Sullivan
Date Added:	17 Jan 2023 10:44
Last Modified:	09 Feb 2023 16:43
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/47905

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