Translation and Adaptation of Short Dark Tetrad (SD4)

The topic of dark personality has been researched extensively in past few years. The term dark tetrad includes four different but related personality traits including machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy and everyday sadism. Those who are high in dark tetrad show behavior that goes against the norms and ethics. The present study is the part of main study which aimed at translating and adapting the recently introduced Short Dark Tetrad (SD4) (Paulhus et al., 2020) in Urdu. The study included two phases where phase I comprised of translation of scales using back translation method and adaptation, whereas in phase II, psychometric properties were established. The sample consisted of 280 individuals (men = 140, women = 140) with age range between 17 to 30 using purposive sampling method. The reliability coefficient of translated scale is .73. For internal consistency of scales, item-total correlation was computed. Inter-scale correlation was calculated which showed moderate to high correlation (p < .01) among four subscales. Confirmatory factor analysis was carried out to confirm the factors of dark tetrad. The result indicated that translated SD4 is a reliable and valid scale.