ИСТИНА

The research examined family resemblance for the Dark Triad, which comprises socially malevolent personality traits: Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy. The participants of the study were adult siblings from two-child families (mean age – 20.5 and 23.3), parent-adult child pairs (mean age of fathers, mothers and children respectively 49.5, 49.4, 23.6) and spouses with short and long marriage duration (mean age for husbands – 43.4, for wives – 41.8). Mean level of the Dark Triad traits did not differ in the pairs of siblings and spouses, but was lower for parents, than for their children. There was modest assortment for narcissism (0.41) and psychopathy (0.22). Correlations between siblings were positive for all of the Dark Triad traits, ranging from 0.18 to 0.29. Inter-generational positive correlations were significant only for pairs mother-adult child. Intra- and inter-generational determinants of the Dark Triad variation are discussed. The study is supported by Russian Fundamental Studies Foundation, project 14-06-00400-а.