Network analysis offers an opportunity to gain a more nuanced view of the connections between the darker aspects of personality by examining the interrelationships between the components that make up these constructs. We examined the associations that five dark personality dispositions (i.e., narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, sadism, and spitefulness) had with pathological personality traits (i.e., antagonism, disinhibition, detachment, negative affectivity, and psychoticism) via network analysis. These dark personality networks were examined in four studies (N = 1800), wherein the second study attempted to replicate the network from the first study, while the last two studies incorporated more specific and independent measures of dark personality features (e.g., grandiose and vulnerable narcissism). Although there were differences across network structures in these studies, the pathological personality trait of antagonism consistently evinced high expected influence centrality (i.e., it was the most strongly connected and possibly influential trait in each network). Our discussion focuses on the implications of these results for the understanding of the connections between the darker aspects of personality.

网络分析通过检查构成这些结构的组件之间的相互关系，提供了一个机会，使您可以更细致地了解人格中较黑暗的方面之间的联系。我们通过网络分析研究了五个黑暗人格倾向（即自恋，马基雅维利主义，精神病，虐待狂和恶意）与病理性人格特征（即拮抗，禁忌，超脱，消极情感和精神病）的关联。这些黑暗的人格网在四项研究中得到了检验（N = 1800），其中第二项研究试图从第一项研究中复制网络，而后两项研究则采用了更具体和独立的黑暗人格特征（例如，自夸和自恋）的测量方法。尽管这些研究的网络结构存在差异，但拮抗作用的病理人格特征始终表现出很高的预期影响集中度（即，它是每个网络中联系最紧密，可能最具影响力的特征）。我们的讨论着重于这些结果对人格较暗方面之间联系的理解。