Psychological Development and Education ›› 2025, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (2): 276-283.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2025.02.13

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Impact of Parental Conflict on Non-suicide Self-injury in Early Adolescence: Longitudinal Mediating Effects of Depression

WANG Yulong1, LI Rong1, CHEN Huilin1, LIN Xiuyun2   

  1. 1. Research Center for Mental Health Education of Hunan Province, Cognition and Hunan Behavior Key Laboratory of Hunan Province, School of Educational Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081;
    2. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Published:2025-03-17

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Abstract: To examine the relationship between parental conflict and the impact on the development of non-suicide self-injury in early adolescence, a questionnaire-based follow-up survey was conducted on 851 early adolescents in 3 consecutive visits. The results showed that:(1) In early adolescence, there was an overall increasing trend in the development of the parental conflict, depression, and non-suicide self-injury, and the initial levels of parental conflict and depression were all significantly negatively correlated with their rates of development; (2) The initial level and rate of development of parental conflict can influence the development of non-suicide self-injury in early adolescence indirectly through the initial level and rate of development of depression. Thus, there is a longitudinal mediating role for depression in the effects of parental conflict on the development of non-suicide self-injury in early adolescence.

Key words: non-suicidal self-injury, parental conflict, depression, early adolescence

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