Comparison of emotional neurotic personality and dark personality traits in successful and unsuccessful couples

This study was conducted to compare neurotic personality and dark personality traits in successful and unsuccessful couples. The current research was of the causal-comparative type. The statistical population of this research is made up of all married men and women of Tabriz City in 2023. From the whole community, 150 people were selected by purposeful sampling. 30 of them were removed because their scores were abnormally outside the average range, and finally, 120 people remained. The score of 60 people was higher than the average range (score 161) and they were considered as successful couples, and the score of 60 people was lower than the average range (score 161) and they were considered as unsuccessful couples. To evaluate the data, the Emotional Neuroscience Scale of Personality (ANPS; Panksepp, 1998), Dark Personality Traits (DTDD; Johnson & Webster, 2010), and Marital Satisfaction (ENRICH; Fowers & Olson, 1993) were used. Analysis of variance test was used to analyze the data. The results showed that between successful and unsuccessful couples in search components (P=0.002), fear (P=0.001), play (P=0.001), sadness (P=0.001), spirituality (P=0.001), dark traits of Machiavellianism (P=0.001), narcissism (P=0.001) and antisociality (P=0.002) there was a significant difference. Therefore, it can be said that there is a difference between the neurotic emotional personality and dark personality traits in successful and unsuccessful couples.