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PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Volume 59, Issue -, Pages 83-88Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.11.010
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Corporate psychopathy; B-Scan 360; Leadership; Psychological distress; Work-family conflict; Job satisfaction
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Although psychopathy often is considered the most toxic of the types that make up the Dark Triad of personality (psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavellianism), its role in organizational leadership is the least explored. Using the B-Scan 360, a measure of corporate psychopathy, we investigated the relationships among employees' perceptions of psychopathic traits in their supervisors, employee psychological distress, work-family conflict, and job satisfaction. Participants in two different samples, one civic and the other financial, rated their supervisors with the B-Scan 360, and completed self-report measures of psychological distress, work-family conflict, and job satisfaction. Structural equation modeling (SEM) indicated that in each sample B-Scan 360 scores of supervisors were directly and negatively related to employee job satisfaction. The two samples differed somewhat in the associations of the B-Scan 360 with employee psychological distress and work-family conflict. Overall, the results illustrate the effects of perceived psychopathic traits in supervisors on employee well-being and job-related attitudes. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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