The Relationship Between Bullying And Self-injury Of Junior High School Students:understanding The Chain Mediation Between Social Support And Core Self-evaluation

Self-injury behavior is a kind of non-adaptive coping style that individuals can’t adapt to the environmental pressure when facing sudden life events.Due to its high risk and repeatability,it has become a more important public health problem worldwide.With the youth suicide incidents frequently reported,the self-injury behavior hidden after suicide has attracted the attention of researchers.A number of studies have shown that self-injury is a high-risk sexual behavior among young people.The main reason for young people to suffer from self-injury is to express their anger and dissatisfaction through self-injury,so that their original depressed mood can be relieved and their anxiety and disturbance can be alleviated.Before individual self-injury behavior occurs,it is often accompanied by the occurrence of negative life events or sudden changes in environmental pressure.A large number of studies have shown that being bullied is highly correlated with self-harm behaviors.In addition to receiving physical injuries(such as being beaten),students who are bullied will more often form a psychological shadow due to long-term verbal abuse and exclusion and isolation,resulting in psychological symptoms such as anxiety,depression and depression,leading to self-injury or even suicide among teenagers in despair and helplessness.Among the numerous school bullying incidents exposed on the Internet,the bullied students often portray themselves as isolated and submissive,and the self-injured students also have the obvious characteristics of loneliness and low self-esteem.Therefore,this study attempted to explore the factors affecting the self-injury of junior high school students’ bullied students from the perspectives of external support and personal characteristics,so as to provide some basis for preventing the bullying and self-injury behaviors of junior high school students.This study used Delaware Bullying Victimization Questionnaire(Chinese Version),Adolescent Self-injury Questionnaire,Core Self-evaluation Scale and Perceived Social Support Scale to investigate 921 junior high school students in a middle school in Nanning.The results are as follows:(1)In the demographic variable test of junior high school students’ self-injury,the average value of self-injury water shows obvious differences in grades and academic achievements,but there is no difference in gender.(2)The average values of water for bullying victimization of the self-injured were significantly higher than those of the non-self-injured,and the average values of water for perceived social support and core self-evaluation were significantly lower than those of the non-self-injured.(3)There was a significant correlation between the level of self-injury and the levels of bullying victimization,perceived social support and core self-evaluation.There was a significant positive correlation between the level of bullying victimization and the level of self-injury,and there was a significant negative correlation between the personality traits of perceived social support and core self-evaluation and the level of self-injury.The results of regression analysis showed that bullying victims positively predicted their self-injury levels,perceived social support and core self-evaluation negatively predicted their self-injury levels.(4)Through the analysis of multiple intermediary effects test,the direct effect of being bullied on the level of self-injury of junior high school students is significant.Being bullied also indirectly affects the level of self-injury by understanding the intermediary effects of social support and core self-evaluation and the chain intermediary effects of the two.The following conclusions have been drawn in this study:(1)The probability of self-injury behavior of bullied junior high school students is higher than that of non-bullied students.Being bullied as a negative life event can predict the individual self-injury behavior,and there is a significant positive correlation between the two.(2)Perceived social support and core self-evaluation were both protective factors for self-injury.External support and personal traits were affected by negative life events and fluctuated.(3)Perceived social support and core self-evaluation played a part of the intermediary role in the pathway from bullied to self-injury,and they were chain intermediaries.