Political ideology, dark tetrad, and types of intuition among adults

Political Ideology has been termed as an individual perspective, idea or belief about political or social information. Factors like personality traits, brain structure, thinking style, environment may influence political ideology. Various western research has shed light on association of political ideology, dark tetrad traits and intuition among adults. But few have looked at relationship from Indian perspective. This correlational study aims to understand the relationships between political ideology, dark tetrad traits, and types of intuition among adults in India. The sample of 220 adults were employed through convenient sampling. This study utilized three instruments - Political Ideology Scale by Puthillam and others (2021), Short Dark Tetrad (SD4) by Paulhus and others (2020), Types of Intuition Scale (TIntS) by Pretz and other (2014). Key findings include purity-based cultural norms having significant correlations with psychopathy, machiavellianism, and sadism traits, while obedience to hierarchical authority was linked to narcissism and machiavellianism. In terms of intuition, obedience to authority was positively correlated with inferential intuition and negatively with affective intuition. Economic ideology was negatively associated with holistic–abstract and positively with affective intuition. Machiavellianism was associated with inferential and holistic-big picture intuition, while psychopathy and sadism were linked to holistic-abstract intuition. Narcissism was positively associated with inferential intuition.