Consensus is emerging that the constellation of dark personalities should include the
sadistic personality. To build a four-factor measure, we modified and extended the Short …

The six–dimensional HEXACO model of personality structure and its associated inventory
have increasingly been used in personality research. But in spite of the evidence supporting …

Bullying victimization and trauma research traditions operate quite separately. Hence, it is
unclear from the literature whether bullying victimization should be considered as a form of …

Peer aggression among children and youth has garnered significant attention in the fields of
child development and developmental psychology, as well as psychology more generally …

The current study examined whether personality traits were related to social dominance,
directly, and indirectly through bullying, in samples of Western (Canadian) and Eastern …

Getting along (ie to be liked) and getting ahead (ie to be popular) are two fundamental
psychological motives that have important consequences for adolescents' well–being …

The problems psychopathic individuals impose on society and in their interpersonal
relationships can be held in stark contrast to reports of their appeal and sexual success in …

The chapter provides an inventory of the different motives that have been mentioned in the
literature as the motives for bullying. Ten key motives for bullying are discussed: dominance …

Many have examined the desirability and mate competition tactics of adults higher on
psychopathy using cross-sectional data, but few have studied the longitudinal associations …

Background: Preliminary work suggests anxiety moderates the relationship between
irritability and bullying. As anxiety increases, the link between irritability and perpetration …