Development and Effectiveness of a Parent-Adolescent Relationship Training Program Based on the Dark Triple Traits of Military Parent Personality and the Parent-Child Relationship on the Dark Triplet of Parent Personality

The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate the educational program of parent-adolescent relationship based on the dark triangle of military parent personality traits and the parent-child relationship on the dark triangle of parent personality. The study sample consisted of 30 employees working in the Army Ground Aviation Training Center in Isfahan in 2020 had problems related to the dark personality triad who had a teenage son and by purposeful sampling method 30 parents and their adolescent children were chosen. To identify the dark triple parent of personality, the Machiavellian Personality Questionnaire (Christie and Jace, 1970), the narcissistic personality (Ruskin and Terry, 1988) and the psychopathic personality (Levinson et al., 1995) were distributed among 450 parents and 30 had scores. The above were selected, then 30 semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 of their teenage sons. Among the selected parents, 15 were randomly assigned to the experimental group and 15 to the control group. After extracting the three main components of emotions, mixing and communication from the interviews and relying on the dark triple feature of the parent personality, the educational package of the parent-adolescent relationship was designed and performed on the experimental group in 16 sessions of 90 minutes. Multivariate analysis of covariance was used to analyze the data. The results showed that the designed educational package is effective on Machiavellianism, anti-socialism and narcissism of the military parent (p <0.05.)