ArticleJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2018
Poor family functioning mediates the link between childhood adversity and adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury.
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- The lived experiences of primary caregivers supporting adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury: a qualitative systematic review and meta-aggregation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- The prevalence of self-injury in adolescence: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Depressive Symptoms Mediate the Association Between Family Functioning and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Adolescent Psychiatric Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study.Actas espanolas de psiquiatria · 2026Article
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- Attentional negativity and emotional symptoms as serial mediators linking parental verbosity to non-suicidal self-injury in Chinese pre-adolescents.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Understanding how adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury experience communication with caregivers.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The relevant influencing factors of self injury among patients in psychiatry outpatient clinic of general hospital.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Family functioning and NSSI urges among college students: a moderated chain mediation model.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- A novel approach to exploring youth non-suicidal self-injury heterogeneity: individual differential psychopathology network analysis.Annals of general psychiatry · 2025Article
- Family Functioning and NSSI Urges among Chinese Adolescents: A Three-wave Chain Multiple Mediation Model.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2025Article
- The mediating role of family functioning between childhood adversity and adult Health- related risk behaviors: a moderated mediation analysis of generational gap in Chinese migrant workers.Population health metrics · 2025Article
- Associations Between Family Function and Non-suicidal Self-injury Among Chinese Urban Adolescents with and Without Parental Migration.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- The association of family functioning and suicide in children and adolescents: positive behavior recognition and non-suicidal self-injury as sequential mediators.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Risk and protective factors for nonsuicidal self-injury among adolescents: a latent profile analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Family functioning and dysfunctional attitudes mediate the link between childhood maltreatment and nonsuicidal self-injury in depressed college students: a moderated mediation model of anhedonia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- The association between family function and adolescents' non-suicidal self-injury behaviors-is Chinese culture involved?Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Self-injurious behavior in individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities: An interdisciplinary family systems review.Journal of family theory & review · 2024Article
- Comparing the multivariate relationships of conceptual adversity models and structural brain development in adolescent girls: A registered report.Developmental psychology · 2024Article
- Family intimacy and adaptability and non-suicidal self-injury: a mediation analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Understanding the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Non-suicidal Self-Injury in Youth: A Systematic Review.Alpha psychiatry · 2024Review
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Abstract
backgroundNon-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a common harmful behavior during adolescence. Exposure to childhood family adversity (CFA) is associated with subsequent emergence of NSSI during adolescence. However, the pathways through which this early environmental risk may operate are not clear.
aimsWe tested four alternative hypotheses to explain the association between CFA and adolescent-onset NSSI.
methodsA community sample of n = 933 fourteen year olds with no history of NSSI were followed up for 3 years.
resultsPoor family functioning at age 14 mediated the association between CFA before age 5 and subsequent onset of NSSI between 14 and 17 years.
conclusionsThe findings support the cumulative suboptimal environmental hazards (proximal family relationships as a mediator) hypothesis. Improving the family environment at age 14 may mitigate the effects of CFA on adolescent onset of NSSI.
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