To Explore the Associations between Different Personality Pattern and Empathy among Adults: A Correlational Study

This study aimed to identify the association between the Big Five personality traits of the Three Darks. Triad Traits and Empathy. OBJECTIVE OF STUDY 1. To understand the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and empathy. 2. To understand the relationship between the Three Dark triads and their empathy. 3. To understand the relationship between demographic variables and empathy. SIGNIFICANCE: This study is essential for determining the nature of personality and the effects of different demographic variables on empathy in different social contexts. Using different psychological tools, this study highlights the different personalities necessary for healthy and empathetic relationships among human beings. Furthermore, this study attempted to determine how to measure individual differences in empathic processing optimally. This study was designed to establish a relationship between the Big Five personality traits, short dark triads, and empathy among random students from the Indian Subcontinent. I found that agreeableness and openness were the most important predictors of empathy, as measured by the Empathy Quotient (EQ). The results of this study supported the hypothesis that agreeableness, openness, extroversion, conscientiousness, and emotional stability are positively correlated with empathy, the dark triad traits are negatively correlated with empathy, and females are more empathetic than males. Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) by Gosling et al.. J. Rentfrow, and W. B. Swann Jr.; Short Dark Triad Personality Inventory by Atkinson Baughman, Veselka, and Vernon; Empathy Quotient by Baron and Cohen.