The enemy within one's own ranks: Meta-analysis on the effects of psychopathy on workplace-related behavior.

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Journal of Applied Psychology Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-30 DOI:10.1037/apl0001248

Lenke Roth, Ute-Christine Klehe

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Abstract

Despite the large and growing number of studies on psychopathy in the workplace, the field lacks a comprehensive understanding of the link between psychopathy and core workplace-related behaviors. Basing assumptions on social exchange theory, the purpose of this meta-analytic review (k = 166; N = 49,350) is (a) to test the relationship of psychopathy with task performance, organizational citizenship behavior, and counterproductive work behavior, (b) to differentiate the relationships of primary versus secondary psychopathy with these behaviors, and (c) to test for relevant moderating influences by actor- and target-/exchange-partner factors. In contrast to earlier significant but weak meta-analytic findings (O'Boyle et al., 2012), both meta-analytic overall effects and meta-analytic structural equation modeling suggest that psychopathy substantially reduces task performance and organizational citizenship behavior and enhances counterproductive work behavior. Compared to primary psychopathy, effects were mostly more pronounced for secondary psychopathy. Besides methodological factors, moderator analyses revealed relationships to vary by actor (age, organizational tenure, hierarchical level) but not by target. Together, these findings point toward new and relevant directions for future research on the effects of psychopathy in the workplace. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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自己队伍中的敌人：精神病态对工作场所相关行为影响的元分析。

尽管对工作场所的精神病进行了大量且越来越多的研究，但该领域缺乏对精神病与核心工作场所相关行为之间联系的全面理解。基于社会交换理论的假设，本meta分析综述的目的(k = 166；N = 49,350)是(a)测试精神病与任务绩效、组织公民行为和反生产工作行为的关系，(b)区分原发性和继发性精神病与这些行为的关系，以及(c)测试行为人和目标/交换伙伴因素的相关调节影响。与早期显著但薄弱的元分析结果（O’boyle等人，2012）相反，元分析总体效应和元分析结构方程模型都表明，精神病会显著降低任务绩效和组织公民行为，并增强反生产工作行为。与原发精神病相比，继发精神病的效果更为明显。除了方法因素外，调节因子分析还揭示了参与者（年龄、组织任期、等级水平）之间的关系不同，但不受目标的影响。总之，这些发现为未来研究精神病对工作场所的影响指明了新的相关方向。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，版权所有）。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Applied Psychology® focuses on publishing original investigations that contribute new knowledge and understanding to fields of applied psychology (excluding clinical and applied experimental or human factors, which are better suited for other APA journals). The journal primarily considers empirical and theoretical investigations that enhance understanding of cognitive, motivational, affective, and behavioral psychological phenomena in work and organizational settings. These phenomena can occur at individual, group, organizational, or cultural levels, and in various work settings such as business, education, training, health, service, government, or military institutions. The journal welcomes submissions from both public and private sector organizations, for-profit or nonprofit. It publishes several types of articles, including: 1.Rigorously conducted empirical investigations that expand conceptual understanding (original investigations or meta-analyses). 2.Theory development articles and integrative conceptual reviews that synthesize literature and generate new theories on psychological phenomena to stimulate novel research. 3.Rigorously conducted qualitative research on phenomena that are challenging to capture with quantitative methods or require inductive theory building.