Vandalism, the intentional act to destruct or to deface a property not one's own, has received surprisingly little attention in psychological research so far. The present contribution addresses this gap and applies a basic personality perspective to vandalism. Here, we focused on one specific manifestation of vandalism, that is, destroying things for pleasure. In the present study (N = 221), we assessed individual differences in sadism, the dark triad of psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism as well as the HEXACO personality model. Multiple regression analyses revealed that individual differences in sadism predict vandalistic acts that are executed for pleasure. This relation was shown to be independent of the dark triad and the HEXACO dimensions. As such, the present contribution suggests that sadistic orientations might play a role in vandalistic acts that are executed for pleasure. Implications for research on sadism and vandalism are discussed.
Keywords:
Vandalism / Sadism / HEXACO / Dark triad / Dark tetrad
Source:
Personality and Individual Differences, 2019, 140, 52-56
TY - JOUR
AU - Pfattheicher, Stefan
AU - Keller, Johannes
AU - Knežević, Goran
PY - 2019
UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2828
AB - Vandalism, the intentional act to destruct or to deface a property not one's own, has received surprisingly little attention in psychological research so far. The present contribution addresses this gap and applies a basic personality perspective to vandalism. Here, we focused on one specific manifestation of vandalism, that is, destroying things for pleasure. In the present study (N = 221), we assessed individual differences in sadism, the dark triad of psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism as well as the HEXACO personality model. Multiple regression analyses revealed that individual differences in sadism predict vandalistic acts that are executed for pleasure. This relation was shown to be independent of the dark triad and the HEXACO dimensions. As such, the present contribution suggests that sadistic orientations might play a role in vandalistic acts that are executed for pleasure. Implications for research on sadism and vandalism are discussed.
PB - Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford
T2 - Personality and Individual Differences
T1 - Destroying things for pleasure: On the relation of sadism and vandalism
EP - 56
SP - 52
VL - 140
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2018.03.049
ER -
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Pfattheicher, S., Keller, J.,& Knežević, G.. (2019). Destroying things for pleasure: On the relation of sadism and vandalism. in Personality and Individual Differences
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford., 140, 52-56.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.03.049
Pfattheicher S, Keller J, Knežević G. Destroying things for pleasure: On the relation of sadism and vandalism. in Personality and Individual Differences. 2019;140:52-56.
doi:10.1016/j.paid.2018.03.049 .
Pfattheicher, Stefan, Keller, Johannes, Knežević, Goran, "Destroying things for pleasure: On the relation of sadism and vandalism" in Personality and Individual Differences, 140 (2019):52-56,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.03.049 . .
