ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Adolescent and Young Adult Psychiatry
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1522975
This article is part of the Research TopicInsights in Behavioral and Psychiatric GeneticsView all 5 articles
the Association between Family Function and Adolescents' Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Behaviors -Is Chinese Culture Involved?
Provisionally accepted
- 1Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- 2Guangzhou Red Cross Hospital, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
- 3College of Medicine, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
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This study was conducted to explore the specific relationship between family cohesion, adaptability and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in adolescent psychiatric patients in the context of Chinese culture. In this study, 157 inpatients and outpatients (aged between 13 and 18 years) were recruited and they were divided into NSSI group and non-NSSI group. They were assessed with a revised Adolescent Self-Harm Scale and a scheduled unstructured one-by-one interview, and family cohesion and adaptability were evaluated through the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales (FACES II).The 12-month prevalence of NSSI in this representative clinical sample was 50.9%.After controlling for psychosocial and psychopathological factors, the results represented that engagement in NSSI was significantly related to family cohesion and adaptability. NSSI was also related to sexual orientation and severer depressive symptoms. In conclusion, improving family function may be one of the complementary treatment strategies for NSSI in adolescent psychiatric patients. The disturbance of sexual orientation and the effective response to depressive symptoms also needed to be considered.
Keywords: ：adolescents, psychiatric disease, Non-suicidal self-injury, Family function, Chinese culture
Received: 05 Nov 2024; Accepted: 07 Jul 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Rui Zhou, Guangzhou Red Cross Hospital, Guangzhou, 510245, Guangdong Province, China
FUJUN JIA, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, Guangdong, China
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