The Development and Validation of a New Machiavellianism Scale

By Jason J. Dahling, Brian G. Whitaker, P. Levy. 2009

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Do Bad Guys Get Ahead or Fall Behind? Relationships of the Dark Triad of Personality With Objective and Subjective Career Success (2016, background): “This could also possibly be because individuals high in Machiavellianism make occupational choices associated with legal and management careers (Dahling et al., 2008).”
• Employee Machiavellianism to Unethical Behavior (2017, methodology): “Recently, Machiavellianism has been conceptualized as having four underlying facets: distrust in others, desire for control, desire for status, and amoral manipulation (Dahling et al., 2009).”
• Psychological Contracts as a Mediator Between Machiavellianism and Employee Citizenship and Deviant Behaviors (2014, methodology): “Initial research demonstrated not only the scale’s reliability but also that it is related to a wide variety of work outcomes (Dahling et al., 2009).”
• Not Enough of a ‘Dark’ Trait? Linking Machiavellianism to Job Performance (2013, methodology): “In order to account for a current understanding and conceptualization of Machiavellianism, we used the Machiavellian Personality Scale, recently introduced by Dahling et al. (2009).”
• Development and validation of a propensity to trust scale (2013, background): “For example, Dahling, Whitaker, and Levy (2009) suggested that those high in Machiavellianism will report lower levels of propensity to trust.”
• Dissecting work commitment: the role of Machiavellianism (2011, background): “Additionally, a desire for control and a pursuit of status ( Dahling et al. , 2009”
• Upsides to Dark and Downsides to Bright Personality: A Multidomain Review and Future Research Agenda (2018, background): “Considering the ample work evoking various facets of each of the Dark Triad traits, among other broad traits (e.g., Dahling et al., 2009; Judge, Rodell, Klinger, Simon, & Crawford, 2013), critics of brief scales question the content validity of scales attempting to capture a trait such as…”