Mediating effect of social support on relationship between childhood neglect and technical school students of serf-injury

Objective To explore the mediating effect of social support on the relationship between childrenhood neglect and technical school students' self-injury.Methods Totally 814 college students(449 males and 365 females,aged 16 to 20) from five technical schools in Liaoning Province were assessed with the Childhood Neglect Scale(CNS),Juvenile Self-injury Scale and Juvenile Social Support Scale.The regression analysis and Bootstrap method were used to test the mediating effect of social support in the relationship between childhood neglect and self-injury.Results The total scores of CNS and the scores of five factors were significantly negatively correlated with social support (r=-0.442--0.195,P<0.01),bur the scores of self-injury were significantly positively correlated with social support (r=0.241,0.419,P<0.01).The total of social support was significantly negative correlated with self-injury (r=-0.237,P<0.01).The childhood neglect could predict positively technical school students' self-injury (β =0.418,P<0.01).Social support mediated partially the relationship between childhood neglect and self-injury and the value of mediating effect was 8.41%.Conclusion Social support plays a mediating role between childrenhood neglect and technical school students' self-injury.