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- Title
Negative life events and college freshmen self-injury behavior: A moderated mediation model.
- Authors
Fan, Lin Lin; Meng, Wei Jie
- Abstract
To explore the impact mechanism of negative life events on self-injury behavior we recruited 695 Chinese college freshmen to complete the Adolescent Life Events Scale, the Adolescent Basic Psychological Needs Scale, the Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy Scale, and the Adolescents' Self-Harm Scale. The results showed a significant positive association between negative life events and the self-injury behavior of college freshmen. Mediation effects analysis showed that basic psychological needs mediated the relationship between negative life events and the self-injury behavior of college freshmen. A moderated mediation analysis showed that regulatory emotional self-efficacy moderated the direct and indirect mediation processes. These findings suggest that the self-injurious behavior of college freshmen can be effectively reduced by meeting their basic psychological needs and by improving their regulatory emotional self-efficacy, thus helping them adjust to college life.
- Subjects
LIFE change events; COLLEGE freshmen; SELF-injurious behavior; COLLEGE students; PSYCHOMETRICS
- Publication
Social Behavior & Personality: an international journal, 2022, Vol 50, Issue 12, p1
- ISSN
0301-2212
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2224/sbp.12067