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Volume 24, Issue 151 (9-2025)
Journal of Psychological Science 2025, 24(151): 223-244 |
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Enayati M, Khanzadeh M, Raeisi Z, Dehghani A. (2025). The moderating role of authoritative parenting style in predicting risky behaviors based on the dark triad of personality with the mediation of distress tolerance in adolescents. Journal of Psychological Science. 24(151), 223-244.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Feizoleslam Institute of Higher Education, Khomeinishahr, Iran.. , M.kh@fei.ac.ir
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Background: Adolescence is a period marked by a heightened tendency to seek new experiences and engage in risky behaviors, which can have adverse consequences for the adolescent, their family, and society. It appears that adolescent behaviors are significantly associated with personality traits and parenting styles, which can lead to decreased distress tolerance and an increase in risky behaviors. There is a research gap in examining the antecedents affecting adolescents risky behaviors mediating by the distress tolerance variable.
Aims: This study aimed to test a causal model of adolescents' propensity for risky behaviors based on the Dark Triad personality dimensions, considering the mediating role of distress tolerance and the moderating role of the authoritative parenting style.
Methods: The method of this research was descriptive-analytical, using correlation and structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the study included all adolescents aged 16 to 20 in Isfahan in the academic year 2023-2024. Which, according to the number of variables and Kline (2023), 476 individuals were selected as the sample using a multistage sampling method. Data collection instruments included the Iranian Adolescents' Risk-Taking Questionnaire (Zadeh Mohammadi et al., 2008), the Dark Triad of Personality Questionnaire (Johnson & Webster, 2010), the Parental Authority Questionnaire (Buri, 1991), and the Distress Tolerance Questionnaire (Simons & Gaher, 2005). To analyze the data, structural equation testing was used to measure model fit and examine direct relationships. Also for Mediating from Bootstrap and From the Macro and Hayes program (2008) to measure moderating relationships and SPSS-26 and AMOS26 software were used.
Results: The results indicated good model fit with the data (RMSE= 0.077, IFI= 0.923, relative chi-square= 3.704), and all direct relationships with risky behaviors were confirmed. The findings supported the mediating role of distress tolerance in the relationship between the Dark Triad dimensions and risky behaviors (P< 0.05, r= -0.293). Furthermore, the results highlighted the moderating role of the authoritative parenting style in the relationship between the Dark Triad dimensions and adolescents' risky behaviors.
Conclusion: Based on the findings of the present study, the three variables of Dark Triad of Personality, distress tolerance, and authoritative parenting style can be used to predict adolescent Risky Behaviors. The results of this study can also be used in counseling and psychotherapy clinics for prevention and teaching distress tolerance skills and parenting styles.
Aims: This study aimed to test a causal model of adolescents' propensity for risky behaviors based on the Dark Triad personality dimensions, considering the mediating role of distress tolerance and the moderating role of the authoritative parenting style.
Methods: The method of this research was descriptive-analytical, using correlation and structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the study included all adolescents aged 16 to 20 in Isfahan in the academic year 2023-2024. Which, according to the number of variables and Kline (2023), 476 individuals were selected as the sample using a multistage sampling method. Data collection instruments included the Iranian Adolescents' Risk-Taking Questionnaire (Zadeh Mohammadi et al., 2008), the Dark Triad of Personality Questionnaire (Johnson & Webster, 2010), the Parental Authority Questionnaire (Buri, 1991), and the Distress Tolerance Questionnaire (Simons & Gaher, 2005). To analyze the data, structural equation testing was used to measure model fit and examine direct relationships. Also for Mediating from Bootstrap and From the Macro and Hayes program (2008) to measure moderating relationships and SPSS-26 and AMOS26 software were used.
Results: The results indicated good model fit with the data (RMSE= 0.077, IFI= 0.923, relative chi-square= 3.704), and all direct relationships with risky behaviors were confirmed. The findings supported the mediating role of distress tolerance in the relationship between the Dark Triad dimensions and risky behaviors (P< 0.05, r= -0.293). Furthermore, the results highlighted the moderating role of the authoritative parenting style in the relationship between the Dark Triad dimensions and adolescents' risky behaviors.
Conclusion: Based on the findings of the present study, the three variables of Dark Triad of Personality, distress tolerance, and authoritative parenting style can be used to predict adolescent Risky Behaviors. The results of this study can also be used in counseling and psychotherapy clinics for prevention and teaching distress tolerance skills and parenting styles.
Keywords: : distress tolerance, dark triad of personality, risky behaviors, authoritarian parenting style, teenagers
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Received: 2024/11/11 | Accepted: 2025/01/14 | Published: 2025/09/19
Received: 2024/11/11 | Accepted: 2025/01/14 | Published: 2025/09/19
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