Association of peer bullying, life satisfaction with self-harm among junior high school students

YE Juan; WANG Shaojie; WANG Gengfu

doi:10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2023.09.018

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YE Juan, WANG Shaojie, WANG Gengfu. Association of peer bullying, life satisfaction with self-harm among junior high school students[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH, 2023, 44(9): 1360-1364. doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2023.09.018

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YE Juan, WANG Shaojie, WANG Gengfu. Association of peer bullying, life satisfaction with self-harm among junior high school students[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH, 2023, 44(9): 1360-1364. doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2023.09.018

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Association of peer bullying, life satisfaction with self-harm among junior high school students

doi: 10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2023.09.018

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School of Marxism, Anhui Medical University, Hefei (230032), China

Received Date: 2023-07-18
Rev Recd Date: 2023-07-26

Available Online: 2023-09-28

Publish Date: 2023-09-25

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Objective To explore the association between adolescent peer bullying, life satisfaction and self-harm, so as to provide intervention support for the prevention of adolescent self-harm behaviors. Methods In October 2022, 5 724 junior high school students from Xuancheng, Hefei, Huaibei in Anhui Province were selected by multistage stratified random cluster sampling, and a self-administered adolescent mental health behavior questionnaire was used to conduct the survey. Results The detection rate of peer bullying among adolescents was 30.0%, and the detection rates of the five self-harm behaviors including highly lethal self-harm, less lethal self-harm with visible tissue damage, self-harm without visible tissue damage, self-harm with latency damage, and psychological self-harm were 10.2%, 25.8%, 35.5%, 20.8% and 28.2%, respectively. Logistic regression model results showed a positive association between exposure to peer bullying and the five self-harmful behaviors (OR=2.52-3.21, P < 0.01), and a negative association between life satisfaction and the five self-harmful behaviors (OR=0.19-0.33, P < 0.01). Adolescent life satisfaction had a moderating effect between exposure to peer bullying and highly lethal self-harm, less lethal self-harm with visible tissue damage, self-harm without visible tissue damage, and self-harm with latency damage (OR=1.53, 1.42, 1.30, 1.39, P < 0.05), and no moderating effect between exposure to peer bullying and psychological self-harm (P>0.05). Conclusion Peer bullying among adolescents may increase the risk of self-harm behavior. Improvement of life satisfaction can effectively mitigate the negative effects of peer bullying on adolescent self-harm.
- Violence,
- Quality of life,
- Self-injurious behavior,
- Mental health,
- Regression analysis,
- Adolescent

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