A Meta-Analysis of the Dark Triad and Work Behavior: A Social Exchange Perspective

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: O'Boyle, Ernest H., Jr.; Forsyth, Donelson R.; Banks, George C.; McDaniel, Michael A.
• 署名单位: Longwood University; University of Richmond; Virginia Commonwealth University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/a0025679
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 557-579
• 关键词: dark triad; Machiavellianism; narcissism; psychopathy; CWB

摘要

We reviewed studies of the Dark Triad (DT) personality traits Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy and meta-analytically examined their implications for job performance and counterproductive work behavior (CWB). Relations among the DT traits and behaviors were extracted from original reports published between 1951 and 2011 of 245 independent samples (N = 43,907). We found that reductions in the quality of job performance were consistently associated with increases in Machiavellianism and psychopathy and that CWB was associated with increases in all 3 components of the DT, but that these associations were moderated by such contextual factors as authority and culture. Multivariate analyses demonstrated that the DT explains moderate amounts of the variance in counterproductivity, but not job performance. The results showed that the 3 traits are positively related to one another but are sufficiently distinctive to warrant theoretical and empirical partitioning.