Anushree Ghosh
Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management, West Bengal, India.
Dipanjana Chatterjee
Amity University, Kolkata
Pages: , 326-341
The dark core of personality (D), encompassing traits like callousness, vindictiveness,
and narcissism, can significantly impact communication dynamics. The term “Dark
Factor of Personality” (D) refers to this fundamental tendency, which is the as a whole
motivate to maximise one’s own utility—ignoring, tolerating, or intentionally causing
ineffectiveness for others—accompanied by beliefs that serve as reasons. The study
attempts to find whether there is any significant relationship between assertiveness,
tolerance for disagreement and its impact on dark factors of personality consisting of
certain traits like callousness, sadism, vindictiveness, deceitfulness, and narcissistic
entitlement. study has adopted the survey method, which consists of the usage of self
report inventories ‘D35’ scale by Moshagen et. al. to measure the dark factors of
personality, the ‘Rathus Assertiveness Scale’ (RAS) by Spencer A. Rathus to find out
the perceived level of assertiveness, and Teven, McCroskey, & Richmond’s ‘Tolerance
for Disagreement’ scale to assess how well someone can accept that others may not
agree with what they personally believe to be true. The sample consists of 200
participants where 123 individuals i.e., 62% are female, and 77 individuals i.e., 38%
are male. According to Pearson’s Product-Moment Correlation coefficient, there is
significant relation between the dark core of personality (D) and assertiveness.
Limitations involve that themes under Dark Core (D) of Personality are highly correlated
and thus strongly saturated by D