ИСТИНА

The Short Dark Triad (SD3) questionnaire (Jones and Paulhus, 2013) is a brief 27-item measure of Machiavellianism, narcissism and sub-clinical psychopathy. The present study investigates the structure of SD3 in Russian population. Participants of the study were 571 adults between the ages of 16 and 84 (M=35.12, SD=14.11). Men scored higher than women did on all SD3 measures: Cohen’s d’s were 0.46 for Machiavellianism, 0.15 for narcissism and 0.57 for psychopathy. The results of the exploratory factor analysis shows that two items from narcissism scale and three items from the psychopathy scale do not fit the internal structure of the Russian SD3 (they have loadings from .30 to .45 on another factors). The results of varimax and oblimin rotation give similar results. Confirmative factor analysis revealed some shared variance between SD3 scales and correlation between errors of a number of items. SD3 scores of Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy have modest to high correlations with comparable indices of the Russian express questionnaire The Dark Triad-17 and have expected correlations with factors and facets of the HEXACO and Big 5 questionnaires.