Table 1. Correlations, means, standard deviations, and Cronbach’sα for Dark Triad and Big Five traits.
| Big Five | Dark Triad | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| O | C | E | A | N | M | Narc | P | ||
| Big Five | Openness (O) | – | .14∗ | .23∗∗ | .12∗ | −.08 | .01 | .20∗∗ | −.01 |
| Conscientiousness (C) | .14∗ | – | .16∗∗ | .43∗∗∗ | −∗∗∗∗ | −.15∗ | .06 | −.31∗∗∗ | |
| Extraversion (E) | .21∗∗∗ | .16∗∗ | – | .22∗∗∗ | −.32∗∗∗ | −.07 | .46∗∗∗ | .13∗ | |
| Agreeableness (A) | .13∗ | .44∗∗∗ | .21∗∗∗ | – | −.50∗∗∗ | −.41∗∗∗ | −.07 | −.50∗∗∗ | |
| Neuroticism (N) | −.06 | −.45∗∗ | −.31∗∗ | −.43∗∗ | – | .27∗∗∗ | −.12∗ | .28∗∗∗ | |
| Dark Triad | Machiavellianism (M) | .01 | −.16∗∗ | −.06 | −.43∗∗ | .19∗∗ | – | .32∗∗∗ | .48∗∗∗ |
| Narcissism (Narc) | .17∗∗ | 0.04 | .46∗∗∗ | −0.11 | −.18∗∗ | .35∗∗∗ | – | .38∗∗∗ | |
| Psychopathy (P) | −.03 | −.31∗∗ | .14∗ | −.51∗∗∗ | 0.11 | .50∗∗∗ | .44∗∗∗ | – | |
| Means and sd (±) | 36.72 ± 6.46 | 34.21 ± 6.05 | 23.97 ± 6.97 | 34.55 ± 5.82 | 22.93 ± 7.13 | 2.98 ± 0.71 | 2.72 ± 0.69 | 1.82 ± 0.60 | |
| Cronbach’sα | .76 | .79 | .86 | .78 | .86 | .78 | .75 | .74 | |
Notes.
White cells mark bivariate correlations between dark traits and ocean; grey cells mark partial correlations between dark traits and ocean controlling for gender; black cells mark significant correlations between dark traits and OCEAN (both bivariate and partial).