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This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of mentalization therapy on the difficulty in emotion regulation and self-control in adolescents with high aggression. The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design and a control group with a three-month follow-up period. The statistical population of the research included boys and girls between the ages of 12 and 18 who were referred to the Development Counseling Center in Rasht in the first half of 2023, and 30 people were selected based on the inclusion criteria using a purposive sampling method and were randomly divided into two experimental (15) and control groups. (15). The experimental group received mentalization therapy during 20 75-minute training sessions, once a week. The data collection tool was Bass and Perry's Aggression Questionnaire (AQ, 1992), Gertz and Romer's Difficulty in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS, 2004), and Tanjani et al.'s Self-Control Scale (SCQ, 2004). The results were analyzed using the repeated measurement variance method. The results showed that the effectiveness of mentalization therapy on the variables of difficulty in emotion regulation and self-control is significant (p<0.05). And this effect was permanent in the follow-up phase (p<0.05). Therefore, it is concluded that mentalization therapy can be effective in reducing the difficulty in regulating emotions and increasing self-control in adolescents with high aggression.

Cyberbullying is one of the most vulnerable types of bullying in adolescents, which may result from childhood traumatic experiences and dark triad personality traits. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the relationship between childhood traumatic experiences and cyberbullying with the mediating role of dark triad traits in adolescents.

The research method used was correlational studies with structural equation modeling. The statistical population included all male students in the first and second grades of high school in the first district of Rasht city in the academic year 2022-2023. A preliminary sample of 480 individuals was selected through cluster random sampling, after removing the distorted samples, 380 samples were considered as the final sample. Data collection tools included the Cyber-Bullying/Victimization Experiences Questionnaire (Antoniadou et al., 2016), the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (Bernstein et al., 1994), and the Dirty Dozen Questionnaire (Jonson & Webster, 2010). Data analysis was done by SPSS22 and AMOS24 software using the structural equation modeling method.

The results indicated a good fit with the proposed model. The findings showed that childhood traumatic experiences have a direct effect on cyberbullying (β= 0.583), dark triad traits (β= 0.714), and dark triad traits on cyberbullying (β = 0.318) (P < 0.05). Additionally, the results also demonstrated a significant mediating role of dark triad traits between childhood traumatic experiences and cyberbullying (β = 0.227) (P < 0.05).

In general, it can be concluded that individuals vulnerable to childhood trauma are prone to cyberbullying in the virtual space, and dark triad personality traits play a significant role in predicting cyberbullying in adolescents.

This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the mediating role of mindfulness in the relationship between the quality of parent-child relationships and risky behaviors in male adolescents. The descriptive-correlational research method was structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the research was all the male adolescents in the first and second year of public schools in Rasht in the academic year 1401-1402, 215 of whom were selected by non-random sampling method. The research tools were the Iranian Adolescent Risk Scale (IARS) by Alizadeh Mohammadi and Ahmadabadi (2007), the Parent-Child Relationship Assessment Scale (PCRS) by Mark et al. (1983) and the Freiburg Mindfulness Questionnaire (FMI-SF) by Walach et al (2006). The structural equation analysis method was used to analyze the data. The results showed that the direct effect of the quality of communication with parents on high-risk behaviors and mindfulness was significant; Other results showed that the direct effect of mindfulness on risky behaviors was significant (P<0.05). It was also found that the mediating role of mindfulness between the quality of father-mother relationships on high-risk behaviors was significant (P<0.05); In fact, the variable of mindfulness plays a partial mediating role between the quality of parent-child relationships and risky behaviors. The proposed research model had an acceptable fit. Based on this, it can be concluded that the quality of parent-child interaction can lead to an increase in self-awareness in teenagers, and as a result, it can be considered a protective factor against high-risk behaviors.