The Role of Dark Triad of Personality in Career Path Difficulties, with the Mediating Role of Uncertainty Intolerance

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1 Assistant professor, Department of Psychology, Neyshabur Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur, Iran.

2 Master's degree of clinical psychology, Department of Psychology, Neyshabour Branch,Islamic Azad University, Neyshabour. Iran.

10.30473/jpsy.2025.74000.1086

Abstract

The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between the dark triad of personality and career problems, with the mediating role of intolerance of uncertainty. The main research question is whether dark personality traits can predict career-related problems in university students, and whether intolerance of uncertainty plays a mediating role in this relationship. This study was a descriptive-correlational research and structural equation modeling. The statistical population included all students of Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur Branch, in the academic year 2023-24, from which 340 people selected using multistage cluster sampling. Data required for the study collected using the CDDQ career problems questionnaire, Simmons and Gaher's tolerance of uncertainty (DTS), and Johnson and Webster's dark triad of personality (2010) and analyzed using SPSS-24 and SMART-PLS4 software. The findings showed that the research model, with a factor structure and theoretical framework, has a good fit; thus, dark personality alone explained 24% of the variance in intolerance of uncertainty, and together the dark personality and intolerance of uncertainty variables explained 74% of the variance in career decision-making problems. Also, the indirect effect of dark personality on career decision-making problems through the mediation of intolerance of uncertainty was 0.262 and the t-statistic value was significant at the 95% confidence level. As a result, dark personality has a significant effect on career decision-making problems due to the mediating role of intolerance of uncertainty, and the positive beta value (0.262) indicates the positiveness of this effect. According to the findings, it can be said that the dark triad of personality is a very important factor in the formation of students' career problems, and intolerance of uncertainty also plays a significant mediating role in this relationship. In order to reduce students' career problems, it is necessary to pay attention to both the dark triad of personality and intolerance of uncertainty. 

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