Dark, emotional, and avoidant: An intensive longitudinal investigation of the Dark Tetrad and daily coping
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Coping consists of both adaptive and maladaptive methods for dealing with stressors or their associated emotional responses. The Dark Tetrad describes a cluster of subclinical and socially aversive personality traits (psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavellianism, and everyday sadism). Although research has examined how individuals higher in Dark Tetrad traits perceive and experience stress, there is a lack of research examining how they cope with stress. Of the minimal literature that does exist examining Dark Tetrad coping, there are noteworthy methodological limitations. The current study investigated associations between the Dark Tetrad and coping with daily stressors among undergraduate students ( n = 359) using an intensive longitudinal (daily diary) design. Participants completed a survey each day for 14-days. Multilevel regression analyses revealed that individuals higher in psychopathy and everyday sadism endorsed more emotion-focused and avoidant coping, whereas, those higher in narcissism endorsed a combination of all types of coping. Machiavellianism was linked only with avoidant coping. Findings can inform researchers and clinicians in the preferred coping methods and stress responses of those with darker personalities within average daily contexts.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".