Dark triad, social intelligence and mental health problems in Law students
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2017
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University of Management and Technology Lahore
Abstract
Lawyers possess difference kind of personality and sometime called immoral than other professionals. The main focus of current research was to find out dark triad personality, social intelligence and in law students. This study provides a validation of short dark triad scale on law students. After pilot study, 400 participants male and female (73%, 28%) were selected through multistage sampling with the age range of 18-24 (M, 21.42SD, 1.66). Participants were given short dark triad scale (SDT), social intelligence scale (SIS) and student problem checklist (SPCL) along with demographic form. The findings revealed that dark triad personality had positive relationship with the Mental Health Problems. The results also shows that participants age and experience, mother age, education and mother occupation, govtinstitute, social manipulativeness, and machiavellianism, were positive predictor of mental health problems in law students. Social skills, extraversion and social empathy was negative predictor of mental health problems.
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Supervised by: Sara Subhan
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Lawyers possess, Mental health problems