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Vilka Attityder har personer med Mörka Personlighetsdrag gentemot Etiska Företagspolicies?

Sondén Karestrand, Ninni LU and Persson, Jonna LU (2020) PSYK11 20192
Department of Psychology
Abstract
This study investigated the relationship between the three personality traits of the Dark Triad (Machiavellianism, Narcissism and Psychopathy) and attitudes towards ethical company policies. 114 participants took part in an online survey, measuring the Dark Triad and seven policy-questions. The participants with the highest scores on the Dark Triad (upper 30 percent) was compared to the participants with the lowest scores (lower 30 percent). The hypothesis was that there would be a difference between the groups concerning their attitudes towards the policy-questions, and that the group with the highest score on the Dark Triad would have a lower score on both the separate policy-questions and an index with all the policies combined. The... (More)
This study investigated the relationship between the three personality traits of the Dark Triad (Machiavellianism, Narcissism and Psychopathy) and attitudes towards ethical company policies. 114 participants took part in an online survey, measuring the Dark Triad and seven policy-questions. The participants with the highest scores on the Dark Triad (upper 30 percent) was compared to the participants with the lowest scores (lower 30 percent). The hypothesis was that there would be a difference between the groups concerning their attitudes towards the policy-questions, and that the group with the highest score on the Dark Triad would have a lower score on both the separate policy-questions and an index with all the policies combined. The results supported the hypothesis in that the group with the higher scores had a lower score on the policy-index and on all separate policy-questions except one. This indicated that people with a high degree of dark personality traits overall had a more negative attitude towards ethical company policies. Furthermore this study had an explorative approach investigating correlations between the three dimensions of the Dark Triad and attitudes towards specific policy-questions. The results showed that there were several significant correlations, but that the dimensions correlated differently with the policy-questions. The expectation was that the results of this study could be used in further research on the relationship between the Dark Triad and ethical company policies in recruitment contexts. (Less)
Abstract (Swedish)
Denna studie undersökte förhållandet mellan de tre personlighetsdragen som ingår i den Mörka Triaden (Machiavellianism, Narcissism och Psykopati) och attityder gentemot etiska företagspolicies. 114 deltagare deltog i en onlineundersökning som mätte den Mörka Triaden och sju policyfrågor. Deltagarna med de högsta poängen på Mörka Triaden (övre 30 procenten) jämfördes med deltagarna med de lägsta poängen (nedre 30 procenten). Hypotesen var att det skulle finnas en skillnad mellan grupperna avseende deras attityder gentemot policyfrågor och att gruppen med högst grad av mörka personlighetsdrag skulle ha lägre poäng på policyfrågorna var för sig samt på ett policyindex bestående av alla policyfrågor ihopslagna. Resultaten gav stöd till... (More)
Denna studie undersökte förhållandet mellan de tre personlighetsdragen som ingår i den Mörka Triaden (Machiavellianism, Narcissism och Psykopati) och attityder gentemot etiska företagspolicies. 114 deltagare deltog i en onlineundersökning som mätte den Mörka Triaden och sju policyfrågor. Deltagarna med de högsta poängen på Mörka Triaden (övre 30 procenten) jämfördes med deltagarna med de lägsta poängen (nedre 30 procenten). Hypotesen var att det skulle finnas en skillnad mellan grupperna avseende deras attityder gentemot policyfrågor och att gruppen med högst grad av mörka personlighetsdrag skulle ha lägre poäng på policyfrågorna var för sig samt på ett policyindex bestående av alla policyfrågor ihopslagna. Resultaten gav stöd till hypotesen då gruppen med de högsta poängen på Mörka Triaden hade lägre poäng på indexet och på alla policyfrågor utom en. Detta indikerade att människor med hög grad av mörka personlighetsdrag totalt sett hade en mer negativ attityd gentemot etiska företagspolicies. Vidare hade denna studie en explorativ ansats som undersökte korrelationer mellan de tre dimensionerna av den Mörka Triaden och attityder gentemot specifika policyfrågor. Resultaten visade att det fanns flera betydande korrelationer, men att dimensionerna korrelerade olika med policyfrågorna. Förhoppningen var att denna studies resultat skulle kunna användas i vidare forskning om relationen mellan Mörka Triaden och etiska företagspolicies i en rekryteringskontext. (Less)
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Sondén Karestrand, Ninni LU and Persson, Jonna LU
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PSYK11 20192
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M2 - Bachelor Degree
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keywords
mörka triaden, mörka personlighetsdrag, företagspolicies, etik, organisationer dark triad, dark personality traits, company policies, ethics, organizations
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Swedish
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9001548
date added to LUP
2020-01-21 09:19:23
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2020-01-21 09:19:23
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  author       = {{Sondén Karestrand, Ninni and Persson, Jonna}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Vilka Attityder har personer med Mörka Personlighetsdrag gentemot Etiska Företagspolicies?}},
  year         = {{2020}},
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