Profiles of the Dark Tetrad and the frequency of GAI-related academic misconduct.

The rise of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) presents new challenges to academic integrity, enabling students to engage in academic misconduct with reduced effort and risk of detection. While previous research has examined personality predictors of academic misconduct, very few studies have adopted a person-centered approach to explore how distinct Dark Tetrad personality profiles relate to GAI-related misconduct over time. A total of 781 university students in Taiwan completed the Time 1 survey and 760 completed the follow-up one month later. Latent Profile Analysis based on the Dark Tetrad classified students into three profiles: Narc-Psych-Sad, Machiavellian, and High Dark Tetrad. The profiles differed significantly in the total frequency of GAI-related academic misconduct: students in the Narc-Psych-Sad profile reported more frequent misconduct than those in the Machiavellian profile, whereas the small High Dark Tetrad profile showed the highest observed means but did not differ significantly from the other two.