Non-suicidal self-injury in Chinese adolescents: longitudinal associations with negative life events and life satisfaction
ObjectivesThe relationship between negative life events, life satisfaction, and nonsuicidal self-injury has been demonstrated in adolescence, but no study has examined the longitudinal associations between the three over time. The present study hypothesized that negative life events play a mediating...
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| author | Zhansheng Xu Zhansheng Xu Zhansheng Xu Yaxin Kong Yaxin Kong Yaxin Kong Yang Yang Yang Yang Mingyangjia Tian Mingyangjia Tian Mingyangjia Tian Yu Liu Yu Liu Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin |
| author_facet | Zhansheng Xu Zhansheng Xu Zhansheng Xu Yaxin Kong Yaxin Kong Yaxin Kong Yang Yang Yang Yang Mingyangjia Tian Mingyangjia Tian Mingyangjia Tian Yu Liu Yu Liu Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin |
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| description | ObjectivesThe relationship between negative life events, life satisfaction, and nonsuicidal self-injury has been demonstrated in adolescence, but no study has examined the longitudinal associations between the three over time. The present study hypothesized that negative life events play a mediating role in the relationship between life satisfaction and non-suicidal self-injury over time.MethodsA total of 268 junior high school students participated in three questionnaires with an interval of half a year and completed questionnaires investigating the Adolescents Self-Harm Scale, the Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Checklist, and the Satisfaction with Life Scale.ResultsThe results indicated a significant predictive role of negative life events in non-suicidal self-injury over time and the prospective effect of life satisfaction on negative life events in adolescence. Negative life events play an intertemporal mediation in the relationship between life satisfaction and non-suicidal self-injury.ConclusionAs a clear non-suicidal self-injury risk factor, negative life events can significantly predict non-suicidal self-injury in adolescence whether it is horizontal or vertical. Junior high school students who are exposed to more negative life events are more likely to have non-suicidal self-injury behaviors and the negative life events have a certain lagging effect on non-suicidal self-injury. Due to the prospective effect of life satisfaction on negative life events in adolescents, negative life events play a mediation in the relationship between life satisfaction and non-suicidal self-injury over time. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-72ef7fd5554a43bb817e2ee7de27f3fd2025-08-20T01:50:26ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychiatry1664-06402025-03-011510.3389/fpsyt.2024.14703711470371Non-suicidal self-injury in Chinese adolescents: longitudinal associations with negative life events and life satisfactionZhansheng Xu0Zhansheng Xu1Zhansheng Xu2Yaxin Kong3Yaxin Kong4Yaxin Kong5Yang Yang6Yang Yang7Mingyangjia Tian8Mingyangjia Tian9Mingyangjia Tian10Yu Liu11Yu Liu12Lin Lin13Lin Lin14Lin Lin15Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, ChinaFaculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, ChinaCenter of Collaborative Innovation for Assessment and Promotion of Mental Health, Tianjin, ChinaKey Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, ChinaFaculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, ChinaCenter of Collaborative Innovation for Assessment and Promotion of Mental Health, Tianjin, ChinaFaculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, ChinaCollaborative Innovation Center of Assessment Toward Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaKey Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, ChinaFaculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, ChinaCenter of Collaborative Innovation for Assessment and Promotion of Mental Health, Tianjin, ChinaIntelligent Laboratory of Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Crisis Intervention of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang, ChinaDepartment of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang, ChinaKey Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, ChinaFaculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, ChinaCenter of Collaborative Innovation for Assessment and Promotion of Mental Health, Tianjin, ChinaObjectivesThe relationship between negative life events, life satisfaction, and nonsuicidal self-injury has been demonstrated in adolescence, but no study has examined the longitudinal associations between the three over time. The present study hypothesized that negative life events play a mediating role in the relationship between life satisfaction and non-suicidal self-injury over time.MethodsA total of 268 junior high school students participated in three questionnaires with an interval of half a year and completed questionnaires investigating the Adolescents Self-Harm Scale, the Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Checklist, and the Satisfaction with Life Scale.ResultsThe results indicated a significant predictive role of negative life events in non-suicidal self-injury over time and the prospective effect of life satisfaction on negative life events in adolescence. Negative life events play an intertemporal mediation in the relationship between life satisfaction and non-suicidal self-injury.ConclusionAs a clear non-suicidal self-injury risk factor, negative life events can significantly predict non-suicidal self-injury in adolescence whether it is horizontal or vertical. Junior high school students who are exposed to more negative life events are more likely to have non-suicidal self-injury behaviors and the negative life events have a certain lagging effect on non-suicidal self-injury. Due to the prospective effect of life satisfaction on negative life events in adolescents, negative life events play a mediation in the relationship between life satisfaction and non-suicidal self-injury over time.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1470371/fulladolescencenegative life eventslife satisfactionnon-suicidal self-injurylongitudinal study |
| spellingShingle | Zhansheng Xu Zhansheng Xu Zhansheng Xu Yaxin Kong Yaxin Kong Yaxin Kong Yang Yang Yang Yang Mingyangjia Tian Mingyangjia Tian Mingyangjia Tian Yu Liu Yu Liu Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Lin Non-suicidal self-injury in Chinese adolescents: longitudinal associations with negative life events and life satisfaction Frontiers in Psychiatry adolescence negative life events life satisfaction non-suicidal self-injury longitudinal study |
| title | Non-suicidal self-injury in Chinese adolescents: longitudinal associations with negative life events and life satisfaction |
| title_full | Non-suicidal self-injury in Chinese adolescents: longitudinal associations with negative life events and life satisfaction |
| title_fullStr | Non-suicidal self-injury in Chinese adolescents: longitudinal associations with negative life events and life satisfaction |
| title_full_unstemmed | Non-suicidal self-injury in Chinese adolescents: longitudinal associations with negative life events and life satisfaction |
| title_short | Non-suicidal self-injury in Chinese adolescents: longitudinal associations with negative life events and life satisfaction |
| title_sort | non suicidal self injury in chinese adolescents longitudinal associations with negative life events and life satisfaction |
| topic | adolescence negative life events life satisfaction non-suicidal self-injury longitudinal study |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1470371/full |
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