Personality Traits as Predictors of Malevolent Creative Ideation in Offenders
Malevolent creativity, which can be defined as creativity that is deliberately planned to damage others, is a concept that explains how the capacity to generate novel and effective outcomes (creativity) may, on occasion, be misapplied. The present study used 130 male inmates of the Oradea Maximum Se...
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| author | Enikő Szabó Attila Körmendi Győző Kurucz David Cropley Timea Olajos Nóra Pataky |
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| description | Malevolent creativity, which can be defined as creativity that is deliberately planned to damage others, is a concept that explains how the capacity to generate novel and effective outcomes (creativity) may, on occasion, be misapplied. The present study used 130 male inmates of the Oradea Maximum Security Penitentiary in Romania to explore the ability of a set of personality variables (the dark triad, self-efficacy, and self-esteem) to predict malevolent creative ideation. The findings indicate that Machiavellianism and self-efficacy were significant predictors of malevolent creative ideation in the form of lying, while only Machiavellianism was a significant predictor of malevolent creative ideation in the form of hurting people. In addition, the present study found significant differences among subgroups in the sample, with more experienced offenders showing higher levels of malevolent creative ideation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bf43c152fd034475bebc25c2a07acfde2023-12-03T14:40:16ZengMDPI AGBehavioral Sciences2076-328X2022-07-0112724210.3390/bs12070242Personality Traits as Predictors of Malevolent Creative Ideation in OffendersEnikő Szabó0Attila Körmendi1Győző Kurucz2David Cropley3Timea Olajos4Nóra Pataky5Oradea Penitentiary, Parcul Traian 3, 410033 Oradea, RomaniaDepartment of Personality and Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Psychology, University of Debrecen, 4002 Debrecen, HungaryDepartment of Work and Organization Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Psychology, University of Debrecen, 4002 Debrecen, HungaryUniSA STEM, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5001, AustraliaDepartment of Personality and Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Psychology, University of Debrecen, 4002 Debrecen, HungaryDepartment of Pedagogical Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Psychology, University of Debrecen, 4002 Debrecen, HungaryMalevolent creativity, which can be defined as creativity that is deliberately planned to damage others, is a concept that explains how the capacity to generate novel and effective outcomes (creativity) may, on occasion, be misapplied. The present study used 130 male inmates of the Oradea Maximum Security Penitentiary in Romania to explore the ability of a set of personality variables (the dark triad, self-efficacy, and self-esteem) to predict malevolent creative ideation. The findings indicate that Machiavellianism and self-efficacy were significant predictors of malevolent creative ideation in the form of lying, while only Machiavellianism was a significant predictor of malevolent creative ideation in the form of hurting people. In addition, the present study found significant differences among subgroups in the sample, with more experienced offenders showing higher levels of malevolent creative ideation.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/12/7/242malevolent creativitymalevolent ideationpersonalitydark triadoffenders |
| spellingShingle | Enikő Szabó Attila Körmendi Győző Kurucz David Cropley Timea Olajos Nóra Pataky Personality Traits as Predictors of Malevolent Creative Ideation in Offenders Behavioral Sciences malevolent creativity malevolent ideation personality dark triad offenders |
| title | Personality Traits as Predictors of Malevolent Creative Ideation in Offenders |
| title_full | Personality Traits as Predictors of Malevolent Creative Ideation in Offenders |
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| title_short | Personality Traits as Predictors of Malevolent Creative Ideation in Offenders |
| title_sort | personality traits as predictors of malevolent creative ideation in offenders |
| topic | malevolent creativity malevolent ideation personality dark triad offenders |
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