The Credibility of the Machiavellian Personality Scale as a Diagnostic Indicator for Bullying
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The study aimed to verify the structure of the MACH Machiavellian personality scale to assess attitudes toward human nature and trust in interpersonal connections and use it as an indicator for diagnosing bullying. An available sample was 156 young people who use social networking sites. The study relied on the design of cross-sectional studies to verify the study hypotheses. The study analyzed the Machiavellian Personality Scale by (Dahling et al., 2009) and the Illinois Bullying Behavior Scale for its ability to diagnose bullying. The study verified the theoretical opinions of the scale structure for several factors, namely the four, the three, and the two-factors model, then the four-factor model was superior to its goodness of fit within the sample data. The study used discrimination validity, and the scale’s ability to differentiate between high and low levels of bullying increased. The ROC Curve method could use Machiavellian bullying as a continuous variable and the Illinois scale as a binary variable (0,1). The cutoff point for bullying trait is equal to the median of 28 scores. The diagnostic ability of the scale showed 79.6%, which is a high percentage, while the sensitivity reached 97.5%, which means the scale can sort out cases of bullying, while the specificity of the scale was 81.8%, and the fairness of lying-in diagnosing cases was 18.2%, which is a low percentage. The study recommends that media campaigns to raise awareness of the dangers of the Machiavellian personality, and how to overcome its characteristics regarding its presence in a particular person, and conducting counseling sessions, especially in secondary schools and universities, to improve the social self-image of those who suffer post-traumatic stress, as the aggravation of the personality with its Machiavellian traits may push the individual to the point of crime.
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Security Studies, Machiavellian personality, psychopathy, The dark side of personality, bullying
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