Negative life events and college freshmen self-injury behavior: A moderated mediation model
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Lin Lin Fan
School of Educational Science, and Institute for Education and Treatment of Problematic Youth, Ludong University
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Wei Jie Meng
School of Educational Science, and Institute for Education and Treatment of Problematic Youth, Ludong University
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- Keywords:
- negative life events, self-injury behavior, basic psychological needs, regulatory emotional self-efficacy, college freshmen, adaptation to college
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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.
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- 2023-01-28
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- Vol. 50 No. 12 (2022)
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