ArticlePloS one2020
Relationships between internet use, deliberate self-harm, and happiness in adolescents: A Taiwan birth cohort pilot study.
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- Scars, screens, and stakes: Link between non-suicidal self-injury and problem gambling, problem gaming, and problematic internet use - A systematic review.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Pooled it
- The longitudinal course of childhood bullying victimization and associations with self-injurious thoughts and behaviors in children and young people: A systematic review of the literature.Journal of adolescence · 2023Pooled it
- Completeness, consistency, and duplicity of self-mutilation reports by adolescents in the Notifiable Diseases Information System: evaluation study, Santa Catarina, 2014-2023.Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil · 2026Article
- Substance Use, Internet Risk Behavior, and Depressive Symptoms as Predictors of Self-harm Thoughts in Adolescents: Insights from the 2019 ESPAD Survey in Croatia.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- More Cyberbullying, Less Happiness, and More Injustice-Psychological Changes During the Pericyberbullying Period: Quantitative Study Based on Social Media Data.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Lifestyle Habits Related to Internet Use in Adolescents: Relationships between Wellness, Happiness, and Mental Health.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Cyberbullying and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) in Adolescence: Exploring Moderators and Mediators through a Systematic Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Dissociative Trait as a Mediator of Problematic Internet Use in Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder and Learning Disabilities.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2023Article
- Observational prospective study of social media, smartphone use and self-harm in a clinical sample of young people: study protocol.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Internet Use and Subjective Well-Being of the Elderly: An Analysis of the Mediating Effect Based on Social Capital.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Single-Item Happiness Measure Features Adequate Validity Among Adolescents.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- The Self-Absorptive Trait of Dissociative Experience and Problematic Internet Use: A National Birth Cohort Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
The potential risk of internet use on adolescents' self-harm is a major concern. Vulnerable adolescents who are susceptible to bullying are also susceptible to the negative influence of the internet. In this study, the pathway associations were investigated between the risk factors of deliberate self-harm, experience of being bullied, internet use, and protective factors of maternal monitoring on perceived happiness of 12- and 13-year-old adolescents in the Taiwan Birth Cohort Pilot Study dataset (n = 1,457). The Chinese Oxford Happiness Questionnaire was used to measure the adolescents' self-perceived levels of happiness, in two dimensions of social adaptation status and psychological well-being. Our results show that 354 (24.3%) of the 12-year-olds reported having been bullied, and 289 (19.8%) of the 13-year-olds reported this. Seventy-nine (5.4%) of 13-year-olds reported deliberate self-harm in the past year. Results of a structural equation model showed that those who had been bullied at age 12 years were at greater risk of deliberate self-harm at age 13 years. A negative association was found between duration of internet use and perceived level of happiness. Adolescents who spent >5 h online during days off school were at higher risk of deliberate self-harm, and perceived a lower level of happiness. Therefore, spending >5 h online during days off school could be used as an indicator in future preventive action programs to screen out those at a high risk of excessive internet use, deliberate self-harm, and psychological well-being and social adjustment issues.
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