Resilience is inversely associated with self-harm behaviors among Chinese adolescents with childhood maltreatment

Tian, Xin; Yang, Guangya; Jiang, Linling; Yang, Runxu; Ran, Hailiang; Xie, Fujia; Xu, Xiufeng; Lü, Jin; Xiao, Yuanyuan

doi:10.7717/peerj.9800

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“…Each item is rated by a 7-point Likert scale (1 = completely inconsistent to 7 = completely consistent ), and high scores indicate high levels of life satisfaction. The CASLSS has acceptable reliability and validity in samples of Chinese college students [ 46 , 47 ]; the Cronbach’s alpha of the subscales of friendship, family, school, environment, freedom, study, and total scale in the current study were 0.83, 0.92, 0.86, 0.72, 0.85, 0.88, and 0.96, respectively.…”

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confidence: 69%

Childhood Maltreatment and Life Satisfaction in Chinese Student Preschool Teachers: The Roles of Resilience and Social Support

Liu

Jiang

et al. 2022

Behavioral Sciences

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Although some studies have explored the relationships between childhood maltreatment and life satisfaction, few studies have explored the pathways between those two variables in a sample of student preschool teachers. The current study, thus, attempts to explore the relationships between childhood maltreatment and life satisfaction in Chinese student preschool teachers and to examine the roles of resilience and social support in those relationships. A total of 1218 students majoring in early childhood education were recruited from three Chinese universities to attend this study. Self-reported questionnaires were used to collect data, and structural equation modeling was used to perform data analysis. Results showed that childhood maltreatment was negatively associated with life satisfaction in Chinese student preschool teachers; resilience and social support mediated those relationships. The findings suggest that childhood maltreatment not only has a direct relationship with life satisfaction, but also has an indirect relationship with life satisfaction via resilience and social support. Childhood maltreatment should be considered when enrolling student preschool teachers, and increasing levels of resilience and social support should be meaningful approaches when cultivating student preschool teachers who have experienced childhood maltreatment.

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Childhood Maltreatment and Life Satisfaction in Chinese Student Preschool Teachers: The Roles of Resilience and Social Support

Liu

Jiang

et al. 2022

Behavioral Sciences

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“…Social vulnerability emphasises that human beings can improve their ability to cope with injury by modifying or changing their own characteristics and behaviours (Cutter, 1996). Tian et al (2020) found that there was a significant correlation between children's resilience and self-harm, which could explain the negative effects of the pandemic on children's self-harm behaviours. It reminds us that we should strengthen the early identification and intervention of self-harm and suicide behaviour of children who have experienced abuse and improve their resilience.…”

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Prevalence of Child Maltreatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-sectional Survey of Rural Hubei, China

Zhang

Shi

et al. 2021

The British Journal of Social Work

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The impact of lockdown measures in Wuhan, China during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on child maltreatment remains unknown. The present study attempted to estimate the prevalence of child maltreatment during this period, to identify risk factors, and the influence of child maltreatment. A representative sample of 1,062 school-aged children in rural Hubei province was surveyed. Results indicated that the prevalence of family violence, physical violence, emotional abuse and neglect during the lockdown period were 13.9, 13.7, 20.2 and 7.3 percent, respectively, and that of lifetime prevalence were 17.0, 13.9, 14.6 and 6.9 percent, respectively. And most victims did not seek official help. Boys were more likely to experience physical violence. Children from separated/divorced families tended to report more emotional abuse. Those having family members with a history of drug abuse and mental illness were more likely to experience neglect during the lockdown period. All types of child maltreatment were positively associated with self-harm behaviours. These findings highlight the importance of identifying at-risk children immediately and implementing timely intervention programmes to prevent self-harm behaviours for social workers and health professionals.

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“…However, originally developed Japanese measures to assess self-harm behaviors in Japan, are hard to seek. Although Chinese research has reported a few self-harm measures developed in China, the validation of the measures is rare [32][33][34]. Considering the potential gap between self-harm behaviors in the Asian and Western cultures, and the lack of reliable tools for assessing specific self-harm behaviors in Asia, it seems necessary to develop items reflecting self-harm behaviors in the Eastern countries.…”

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Development and validation of the Self-Harm Screening Inventory (SHSI) for adolescents

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Despite the rapidly increasing rate of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) among adolescents, there is a dearth of culturally appropriate psychological measures screening for NSSI among the adolescents in the Asian countries. This study aimed to develop and validate the Self-Harm Screening Inventory (SHSI), a culturally sensitive and suitable scale for screening adolescents for NSSI. In total, 514 Korean adolescents (aged 12–16 years) were recruited nationwide. All participants gave informed consent and completed the online self-report measures on NSSI, depression, anxiety, and self-esteem. Thereafter, preliminary items were developed through a series of steps: literature review, ratings of experts on self-harm and suicide, and statistical analyses. Ten of the 20 preliminary items were eliminated after exploratory factor analysis due to low endorsement and factor loading (less than .70). The final version of the SHSI comprised 10 binary items relating to self-harm behaviors within the past year (e.g., cut my body with sharp objects, hit my body). A confirmatory factor analysis supported a one-factor structure, as hypothesized. The one-factor model had a good model fit (x2(35) = 84.958, p < .001, RMSEA = .053, CFI = .981, TLI = .975, SRMR = .124). The SHSI also had good internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha = .795) and 4-week test-retest reliability (r = .786, p < .01). The SHSI had high correlations with another self-harm related scale, the Self-Harm Inventory (r = .773, p < .01), and moderate correlations with the Child Depression Inventory (r = .484, p < .01) and Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale (r = .433, p < .01). Additionally, the SHSI was negatively correlated with the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (r = -.399, p < .01). The findings indicate that the SHSI is a reliable and valid measure for the screening of self-harm behaviors among adolescents.

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Resilience is inversely associated with self-harm behaviors among Chinese adolescents with childhood maltreatment

Cited by 6 publications

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Childhood Maltreatment and Life Satisfaction in Chinese Student Preschool Teachers: The Roles of Resilience and Social Support

Childhood Maltreatment and Life Satisfaction in Chinese Student Preschool Teachers: The Roles of Resilience and Social Support

Prevalence of Child Maltreatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-sectional Survey of Rural Hubei, China

Development and validation of the Self-Harm Screening Inventory (SHSI) for adolescents

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