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September 23, 2025Frontiers in PsychologyOpen Access

Dark Triad traits, alexithymia, and emotion regulation as predictors of depression, anxiety, and stress in clinical and non-clinical samples

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LHLeah HornsteinDSDaniel SchleicherAEAngelika Ecker

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Overview

Cross-sectional survey identifies dark triad traits and alexithymia influencing anxiety and stress in adults, suggesting targeted emotion-based interventions.

Key Points

  • Machiavellianism predicts higher levels of anxiety and stress, indicating its detrimental impact on mental health.
  • The alexithymia facet difficulty appraising positive affect contributes additional variance in depression, anxiety, and stress, supporting its role in psychopathology.
  • Narcissism showed modest links with depression and anxiety but was a predictor of perceived stress specifically.
  • Psychopathy did not demonstrate unique predictive qualities for distress in multivariate models, highlighting its complex relationship with emotional outcomes.

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Hornstein et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d44092713b0b5dfea7f2b0https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1674630
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