Mediating effect of social support on relationship between childhood abuses and non-suicidal self-injuries in adolescents / 中国心理卫生杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To investigate the relationship among childhood abuses,social support and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in adolescents,and to examine the mediating effect of social support on the relationship between childhood abuses and non-suicidal self-injury.Methods:A total of 9704 middle school students were selected from junior and senior middle schools in Zhengzhou,Guiyang city.The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-28 item Short Form (CTQ-SF),Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Questionnaire,Social Support Scale for University Students and Multidimensional Sub-health Questionnaire of Adolescents (MSQA) were used to measure the different types of adverse childhood experiences,non-suicidal self-injury,social support and psychopathological status.Results:The CTQ-SF-scores were positively correlated with non-suicidal self-injury scores (r =0.20,P ＜ 0.01) and negatively correlated with social support scores (r =-0.22,P ＜ 0.01).The total scores and factor scores of social supportscale were negatively correlated with non-suicidal self-injury scores in adolescents (P ＜ 0.01).When control of the area,grade,self-reported learning burden,self-reported grades and psychological pathology symptoms,social support in childhood abuse and the relation between the suicide self-injury the mediation effect by the single factor of 17.04％ to 12.57％,the mediation effect of three subcomponents accounted for 7.12％ ～ 13.85％.Conclusion:It suggests that social support may play a mediating effect on the relationship between childhood abuses and non-suicidal selfinjury.