Wisdom and Temperament, Emotions, and the Three Dark Personality Traits: A Structural Equation Model

It is valuable and important to study the dark and undesirable dimensions of personality and determine the variables that affect it. The aim of this study was to develop a dark triple causal model of personality based on wisdom and character mediated by positive and negative emotions. In a correlation design based on modeling, 532 male and female students of Tehran Azad University were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method after meeting the entry and exit criteria. The participants responded to the dark three scales of personality, the temperament scale, the positive and negative emotion scale, and the micro scale. The results of path analysis showed that direct coefficients of negative emotion with dark triangles of positive and significant personality and coefficients of nature, character and wisdom also have positive and significant structural effects on emotion. The indirect coefficients of the two variables of nature, character and wisdom on the dark triad of personality are negative and significant. The structural effect of the whole of nature and character and wisdom on the dark trinity of personality is negative and significant. It seems that the three dimensions of personality due to their close relationship with emotion, temperament and nature in a negative direction, can be studied and included in the approaches of therapeutic attention, because the dark dimensions of personality play an effective role in reducing psychological health and approaches. They will have a positive relationship with people and will have destructive psychological effects.