423,001 responses from 15,690 respondents to 27 items.
| Description | Short Dark Triad (SD3) item-level responses measuring Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy across 13 countries and 12 languages. |
|---|---|
| Reference | Bojana M. Dinić, Giulio Costantini, Kostas A. Papageorgiou, Bruno Bonfá-Araujo, Beata Grabovac, Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska, Ankit, Anja Wertag, Dmitriy Kornienko, Padma Tripathi, Theodoros Kyriazos, Jing Zhang, Mary Poga, Aleksandar Tomašević, The Short Dark Triad across 14 cultures: A novel network-based invariance approach, Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 246, 2025, 113321, ISSN 0191-8869, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2025.113321 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.paid.2025.113321 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Source data | https://osf.io/kdgjc/ |
| Responses | 423,001 |
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| Respondents | 15,690 |
| Items | 27 |
| Response categories | 5 |
| Responses per respondent | 26.960 |
| Responses per item | 15666.704 |
| Density | 0.999 |
| Longitudinal | FALSE |
| age range | Adult (18+) |
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| sample | General/non-specific |
| construct type | Opinion/attitude, Personality |
| measurement tool | Survey/questionnaire |
| item format | Likert Scale/selected response |
| primary language(s) | eng |
| construct name | Measures Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy (lumped into one table) |
This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.
| Instrument | Short Dark Triad (SD3) |
|---|---|
| Mean words per item | 8.593 |
| Mean characters per item | 45.963 |
| Mean characters per response | 7.400 |
| Flesch-Kincaid grade level | 5.003 |
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Or load it directly in R or Python:
# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("dinic_2025_shortdarktriad")
# Python
pip install irw
import irw
df = irw.fetch("dinic_2025_shortdarktriad")
| IRW version | v393 |
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| Redivis dataset | item_response_warehouse_2 v19.0 |
| Redivis dataset DOI | 10.57761/qtx5-4m80 |
| Manifest pin for this IRW version | v19.0 |
| Metadata source | irw_meta v23.0 |