Publications by authors named "Tianwei Du"

The Self-Control Scale (SCS) is one of the most widely used measures in the clinical, personality, and social psychology fields. It is often treated as unidimensional, even though no research supports such a unidimensional factor structure. We tested the factor structure in an undergraduate sample as well as a community sample used for additional confirmatory analyses.

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Trait aggression is often separated into two functional dimensions: reactive and proactive tendencies. Reactive aggression is the tendency to engage in emotionally driven aggressive responses to perceived provocation, whereas proactive aggression is the tendency to engage in premeditated aggressive behaviors in the service of goal attainment. To date, the majority of empirical investigations examining these interrelated constructs have done so using cross-sectional data that have important limitations (e.

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Three-factor models of narcissism (Agentic, Neurotic, and Antagonistic Narcissism) have gained widespread recognition in the field. The Five-Factor Narcissism Inventory (FFNI) stands out as the most comprehensive and only tool to date that assesses all three narcissism domains. However, its validation in Chinese culture and forensic contexts remains largely unexplored.

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Personality impairment is a core feature of personality disorders in both current (i.e., , fifth edition [] personality disorders, International ,11th revision personality disorders) and emerging (i.

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Introduction: This study explores the associations among narcissistic traits, interpersonal behaviors, and aggression using repeated, situation-based measurement. We examine narcissism's relations with aggression across three levels of its theorized hierarchy (level 1: narcissism; level 2: grandiose vs. vulnerable narcissism; level 3: antagonism, agentic extraversion, and narcissistic neuroticism).

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Narcissism can be conceived hierarchically at three levels: as a global construct (Level 1), as two dimensions (Level 2; grandiosity and vulnerability), and as a trifurcated model with three underlying dimensions: interpersonal antagonism, narcissistic neuroticism, and agentic extraversion (Level 3). The aim of the study was to examine how narcissism dimensions across the three levels differ in their associations with various forms of interpersonal functioning. The authors assessed multiple domains of interpersonal functioning using data collected from 447 MTurk workers, 606 students, and 365 informants.

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Objective: Narcissism is a complex, hierarchical construct that can be studied at the one, two, or three factor levels with different components within each level having their own unique nomological networks. The manner in which narcissism-both broadly and narrowly construed-is linked to aggression is important to understand given longstanding clinical and empirical observations of a link between the two and the critical implications of aggression.

Methods: The current preregistered meta-analysis (k = 118) took a novel methodological approach in exploring the association between the three levels of narcissism (i.

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  • Personality disorders stem from ineffective interpersonal behaviors, and researchers have mostly focused on how individuals view their own and others' behaviors, but not enough on how they perceive others' interpersonal actions.* -
  • A study with 470 undergrads revealed that people prefer interpersonal behaviors that mirror their own, especially regarding warmth, and dislike behaviors that contrast with theirs, regardless of how close the relationship is.* -
  • The research indicates that perceptions of others' behaviors significantly impact personality and psychological well-being, emphasizing the need to consider these perceptions when studying interpersonal dynamics related to personality disorders.*
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Personality disorders are rooted in maladaptive interpersonal behaviors. Previously, researchers have assessed interpersonal behaviors using self-ratings of one's own behaviors and third-person ratings of dyadic interactions. Few studies have examined individuals' perceptions of others' interpersonal behaviors.

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Previous findings have showed that existing measures of Machiavellianism often fail to distinguish Machiavellianism from another construct in the Dark Triad (i.e., psychopathy) and do not align with theoretical descriptions.

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  • The Big Five personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism) and the interpersonal circumplex are key frameworks in studying personality and its social impacts.
  • Extraversion and agreeableness are believed to have the strongest connections to interpersonal dynamics, but all five traits influence social interactions in various ways.
  • The study found that each Big Five trait has distinct interpersonal profiles, indicating that even traits not directly associated with social behavior can still significantly impact how individuals relate to others.
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