ArticleBMC psychiatry2023
The role of depressive symptoms and social support in the association of internet addiction with non-suicidal self-injury among adolescents: a cohort study in China.
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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 relationships among self-control, psychological resilience, and digital addiction in college students: a meta-analytic structural equation modeling.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Correlations between non-suicidal self-injury and problematic internet use among Chinese adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
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- How social support impacts depression in Chinese emerging adults: mediators of cognitive reappraisal and loneliness.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Childhood adversity, social support, problematic internet use, psychological vulnerability, and pathways to non-suicidal self-injury and suicidality in adolescents and young adults: a prospective cohort study protocol.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- The somatization of structural friction: deciphering the surge of adolescent self-harm in post-transition China.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Emotional Insecurity and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury among Chinese Early Adolescents: A Longitudinal Moderated Mediation Model Involving Internet Gaming Disorder and Peer Victimization.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- The effect of bullying victimization on internet addiction: mediated by cyberbullying perpetration and moderated by social support.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Associations of non-suicidal self-injury with childhood maltreatment and inflammatory cytokines in adolescents with major depressive disorder.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Investigating the Relationships between Internet Addiction and Suicidal Ideation in Adolescent Girls.Iranian journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Analysis of the mediating effect of invasive ruminative contemplation on the relationship between social support and non-suicidal self-injury behavior in depressed patients.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Internet Addiction and Depressive Symptoms in University Students: Latent Profiles, Network Structure, and Symptomatic Pathways to Suicide Risk.Depression and anxiety · 2025Article
- Negative Affect and Impulsivity in Adolescents with Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: The Moderating and Mediating Roles of Perceived Social Support.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2025Article
- The trend of suicide and self-harm in the Chinese population from 2018 to 2022 based on ambulance medical emergency cases: a retrospective study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Suicidality in Chinese Adolescents.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Associations of vegetable and fruit intake, physical activity, and school bullying with depressive symptoms in secondary school students: the mediating role of internet addiction.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- The effect of social anxiety on teenagers' internet addiction: the mediating role of loneliness and coping styles.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Labor Migration of Parents and Aggression Among Their Offspring in China.JAMA network open · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundBoth internet addiction (IA) and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) are major public health concerns among adolescents, however, the association between IA and NSSI was not well understood. We aimed to investigate the association between IA and NSSI within a cohort study, and explore the mediated effect of depressive symptoms and the moderating effect of social support in the association.
methodsA total of 1530 adolescents aged 11-14 years who completed both the baseline (T1) and 14-month follow-up (T2) survey of the Chinese Adolescent Health Growth Cohort were included for the current analysis. IA, NSSI, depressive symptoms and social support were measured at T1; depressive symptoms and NSSI were measured again at T2. Structural equation models were employed to estimate the mediated effect of depressive symptoms and the moderating effect of social support in the association between IA and NSSI at T2.
resultsIA was independently associated with an increased risk of NSSI at T2, with the total effect of 0.113 (95%CI 0.055-0.174). Depressive symptoms mediated the association between IA and NSSI at T2, and social support moderated the indirect but not the direct effect of IA on NSSI at T2. Sex differences were found on the mediated effect of depressive symptoms and the moderated mediation effect of social support.
conclusionsInterventions that target adolescents' NSSI who also struggle with IA may need to focus on reducing depressive symptoms and elevating social support.
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