The dark triad (DT) was assessed using Short Dark Triad (SD3) scale developed by

Jones and Paulhus (2014). SD3 is a 27-item scale designed to measure three socially aversive
traits: Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy. A sample item included “I like to use
clever manipulation to get my way.” Cronbach's alpha was conducted on all the three sub-
dimensions (shown in Table 1), and the overall reliability of 0.78 was assessed. The resulting
standardized loading of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy on the dark triad
were loaded at 0.78, 0.87, and 0.86, respectively. Thus, it is confirmed that all items loading
exceed 0.6.