Mental Health in School

Mental Health in School

Investigating the relationship between dark personality traits and feelings of loneliness among secondary school students in Ardabil city, academic year 1402-1403

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
ramin ebadi sha;llou 1
shahnaz boustani serghin 2
shahin heshmati jeda 3
mohammad firouz khoshkeh roud 4
zahra sadeghi 5
1 Bachelor of Theology and Islamic Studies, Allameh Tabatabai Campus, Ardabil
2 Master of Theology and Islamic Studies, Payam Noor University, ESCO branch
3 Bachelor of General Psychology, Payam Noor University, Meshkin Shahr Branch
4 Bachelor of Accounting (Government, Tax) of Applied Scientific University of Industrial Management, Ardabil branch
5 Bachelor of Sports Science and Physical Education, Islamic Azad University, Ilam branch
10.22034/jmhs.2024.475441.1099
Abstract
This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between dark personality traits and students' feelings of loneliness. This research is an applied research in terms of its purpose, and the research method is a descriptive-correlation research of a causal type. The population studied in this research is all the secondary school students of the second period of education in two districts of Ardabil city, who are studying in this city in the academic year of 1402-1403, and their number in this research is 5876. The sampling method in this research is purposeful sampling that is randomly selected in a cluster. According to the size of the identified statistical population and based on Cochran's formula, the statistical sample size was determined to be 359 people. In order to collect information, two questionnaires of the dark triangle of personality (Johnson and Webster; 2018) and the loneliness questionnaire by Deshiri et al. (2017) were used. In order to analyze the collected data, structural equations were used to check the hypotheses and pls software was used for data analysis. The results of this research showed that there is a relationship between dark personality traits and students' feelings of loneliness
Keywords
Loneliness
emotion regulation strategies
dark personality traits

Subjects

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