![]() ![]() However, this effect size decreased when studies were longitudinal, which suggests that self-control might not be as effective in predicting persistent crime. The meta-analysis by Pratt and Cullen suggests effect sizes of 0.26–0.28 in low self-control predicting crime. Studies on the relationship between self-control and crime have indeed found consistent significant associations. In this study, we investigate the relative strength of the causal associations between self-control, Dark Triad traits, and assorted antisocial outcomes. ![]() Although low self-control and Dark Triad features overlap, they are distinct individual difference markers that independently predict antisocial or criminal outcomes. ![]() In particular, psychopathy is one of the best clinical predictors of violent-crime recidivism. For example, personality features such as psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism have also been associated with antisocial behaviors, to varying degrees. Other perspectives move beyond self-control disposition and articulate that specific personality features increase involvement in conduct problems. Gottfredson and Hirschi’s general theory of crime proposes that a lack of self-control predisposes people towards antisocial and criminal behaviors. Thus, many researchers aim to understand the social factors and personality traits that differentially predict persistent engagement in antisocial behavior. These behaviors are generally limited to adolescence, but a minority of delinquent youth persist in antisocial or criminal behaviors throughout the life span. Comparatively, the interpersonal component of dark personality features, such as Machiavellianism and narcissism, are secondary for understanding crime.ĭelinquent behaviors often manifest prior to adulthood. This suggests that behavioral disinhibition, or a core incapacity to regulate one’s conduct, is central for understanding delinquency and externalizing psychopathology. Our findings indicate that psychopathy, as operationalized in the Dark Triad, concurrently surpasses self-control and the remaining factors of the Dark Triad in terms of predicting antisocial/criminal outcomes in youth. Machiavellianism and narcissism presented the lowest causal associations. Structural-equation-modelling procedures revealed that the psychopathy factor of Dark Triad traits presented the strongest significant hypothetical causal associations with the antisocial/criminal outcomes, followed by self-control. The sample consisted of 567 (M = 15.91 years, SD = 0.99 years, age range = 14–18 years) Southern European youth from Portugal. The purpose of the present study is to concurrently compare how Dark Triad traits and self-control differ in terms of predicting self-reported juvenile delinquency, CD symptoms, proactive overt aggression, and crime seriousness. Dark Triad traits and self-control are considered viable causal precursors to antisocial and criminal outcomes in youth. ![]()
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