The Best Friend and Friendship Group Influence on Adolescent Nonsuicidal Self-injury
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This study examined associations of peer socialization and selection, over time, with nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) among 5,787 (54.2 % females) Chinese community adolescents. Both effects were tested using two aspects of adolescents' friendship networks: the best friend and the friendship group. Participants completed questionnaires assessing NSSI, depressive symptoms and maladaptive impulsive behaviors at two waves of time over a 6-month period. Results showed that even after controlling for the effects of depressive symptoms and maladaptive impulsive behaviors, the best friends' engagement in NSSI still significantly predicted adolescents' own engagement in NSSI. Adolescents' friendship groups' NSSI status also significantly predicted their own NSSI status and frequency. Additionally, adolescents with NSSI tended to join peer groups with other members also engaging in NSSI.
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Emerging longitudinal evidence suggests that a friend's suicide is a meaningful predictor of an adolescent's own risk for future NSSI and suicidal behavior.
“some emerging longitudinal evidence suggests that a friend’s suicide is a meaningful predictor of an adolescent’s own risk for future NSSI (Giletta et al. 2013, Prinstein et al. 2010, You et al. 2013) and suicidal behavior (e.g., Liu 2006)”
From Adolescent Suicide as a Failure of Acute Stress-Response Systems. (2019) · cites this paper as You et al. 2013
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“We included gender as a moderator because gender differences have been found in both peer socialization and selection effects (Hawton et al. 2002; Prinstein et al. 2010).”
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“…through affiliations with other distressed teens, some emerging longitudinal evidence suggests that a friend’s suicide is a meaningful predictor of an adolescent’s own risk for future NSSI (Giletta et al. 2013, Prinstein et al. 2010, You et al. 2013) and suicidal behavior (e.g., Liu 2006).”
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- Authors
- You, J., Lin, M. P., Fu, K., & Leung, F.
- Affiliations
- South China Normal University (CN)
- National Taiwan Normal University (TW)
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Corresponding author
- You, Jianing
- ORCID
- Venue
- Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
- Published
- 2013-03-10
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 993-1004
- ISSN
- 0091-0627 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-2835
- OpenAlex
- W2093687908
- Cited by
- 94
- References
- 4
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- FWCI
- 6.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Keywords
- non-suicidal self-injury, best friends, friendship groups, peer socialization, peer selection, adolescent peer relationships, depressive symptoms, Chinese adolescents
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Child, Female, Hong Kong, Humans, Male, Peer Group, Social Identification, Socialization, Multivariate Analysis, Logistic Models, Self-Injurious Behavior, Friends
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