Machiavellianism, emotional intelligence and social competence: Are Machiavellians interpersonally skilled?

• Authors: Pilch Irena
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Machiavellians are usually associated with unusually high interpersonal skills which seem to be vital for effective manipulation of other people. However, the current research has not confirmed such an opinion. The aim of this study was to examine relations between Machiavellianism (Mach) and self-report emotional intelligence (EI as a trait), self-report social competences (SC) and recognizing emotions from facial expressions. Mach was negatively correlated with EI and SC overall result and with subscales of social competences in intimate situations (SC-I) and in situations requiring social exposure (SC-ES). There was no correlation between Mach and recognizing emotions and between Mach and social competences in situations requiring assertiveness (SC-A). Exploratory path analyses showed a direct negative association between Mach and EI, SC-I and SC-ES. Mach predicted indirectly (through mediation of EI) SC-I, SC-ES and SC-A.

Keywords

EN

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; MACHIAVELLIANISM; RECOGNIZING EMOTIONS; SOCIAL COMPETENCE

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 39
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 155-164
• Physical description: source-id: PPB_39_3\Q28N8L3435027283.xml
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Pilch Irena

• Irena Pilch, Uniwersytet Slaski w Katowicach, Katedra Psychologii, ul. Grazynskiego 53, 40-126 Katowice, Poland

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Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA071014

DOI

10.2478/v10059-008-0017-4