Phenomenology of the parent-child relationship of adolescents with military parents based on the dark three traits of the parent personality

The aim of the present study was to phenomenology the parent-child relationship of adolescents with military parents based on the three dark traits of the parent personality. The method of the present study was qualitatively phenomenological. . The study sample consisted of 30 employees working in the Army Air Force Aviation Training Center in Isfahan in 1399 who had problems related to the dark personality triad that had a teenage son and by targeted sampling method, 30 parents were saturated. And their teenage children were selected. To identify the dark triple parent of personality, the Machiavellian Personality Questionnaire )MACH-IV( (Christie &  Geis, 1970), the narcissistic personality)NPI( (Raskin & Terry, 1988) and the psychopathic personality )LSRP( (Levinson et al., 1995) were distributed among 450 parents and 30 had scored. Then, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 of their adolescent male children. Finally, the interviews were then implemented verbatim and analyzed by interpretive phenomenology. In this study, 3 main themes and several sub-themes were identified: 1) emotions, such as anger, fear, and hatred; 2) mixing, such as a critical parent, blaming parent, punishing parent, harsh and inflexible rules at home and lack of intimacy in the parent-child relationship; 3) Communication, such as lack of mutual understanding, difficulty in conversation, superficial relationship and lack of empathy. According to the findings, it can be said that the parent-child relationship has been affected by parental personality traits and it is necessary to provide a support system for military families with psychological problems.