Title : Relationship between family communication patterns and non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents: Mediating role of emotion regulation
Abstract:
Objective: Family is the earliest place for individual socialization, and family communication connects the emotions between parents and children in family interpersonal interaction, which is one of the important factors in family environment, and NSSI is the main health risk for adolescents. Therefore, this study explored the influence of family communication patterns on adolescents' non-suicidal NSSI, and examined the role of emotion regulation strategies.
Methods: From October 2023 to February 2024, 563 adolescents, 253 male and 310 female, were enrolled in the psychological medicine department of a top-three hospital. A cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate the family communication patterns of adolescents by using the Family Communication Patterns Scale-modified version, the emotional regulation questionnaire was used to evaluate the emotional regulation patterns of adolescents, and the non-suicidal self-injury behavior questionnaire was used to investigate the self-injury behaviors of adolescents. After describing the general data and analyzing the differences, Pearson correlation analysis was used to analyze the relationship between family communication patterns, emotion regulation strategies and NSSI.Finally, the PROCESS 4.0 plug-in program was used to test the mediating role of cognitive reappraisal and expression inhibition.
Results: Family communication-obedience orientation was negatively correlated with cognitive reappraisal emotion regulation strategies, and positively correlated with expression inhibition emotion regulation strategies and NSSI. Family communication-talk orientation was positively correlated with cognitive reappraisal emotion regulation strategies, and negatively correlated with expression inhibition emotion regulation strategies and NSSI. Cognitive reappraisal and expression inhibition played a partial mediating role in family communication-obedience orientation and NSSI, and the mediating effect size was 33.66% and 23.50%, respectively.
Conclusion: Family communication-obedience orientation not only directly affects adolescents' non-suicidal NSSI, but also partially mediates the effect of emotion regulation strategies on adolescents' non-suicidal NSSI.The complete mediating effect of emotion regulation strategies on family communication-conversation orientation and adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury behavior. It has important theoretical significance and guiding function for the prevention and intervention of NSSI behavior in adolescents.
Audience Take Away:
- To understand the current situation of adolescents' family communication patterns.
- We know that emotion regulation strategies are mediating factors between family communication patterns and adolescents' NSSI behavior.
- It can help teenagers develop better communication patterns and coping strategies.
- To provide effective advice on nursing intervention for clinical staff.
