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Childhood Separation From Parents and Self-Harm in Adolescence: A Cross-Sectional Study in Mainland China

As the prevalence of self-harm among adolescents in Chinese escalates, finding out the potential risk factors associated with self-harm behaviors has aroused much attention. This study aims to explore the association between parent-child separation and series of self-harm (SH) subtypes among Chinese...

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Autores principales: Zhou, Tao-Jie, Yuan, Meng-Yuan, Ren, Hao-Yang, Xie, Guo-Die, Wang, Geng-Fu, Su, Pu-Yu
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8825502/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35153880
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.645552
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author Zhou, Tao-Jie
Yuan, Meng-Yuan
Ren, Hao-Yang
Xie, Guo-Die
Wang, Geng-Fu
Su, Pu-Yu
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Yuan, Meng-Yuan
Ren, Hao-Yang
Xie, Guo-Die
Wang, Geng-Fu
Su, Pu-Yu
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description As the prevalence of self-harm among adolescents in Chinese escalates, finding out the potential risk factors associated with self-harm behaviors has aroused much attention. This study aims to explore the association between parent-child separation and series of self-harm (SH) subtypes among Chinese adolescents. We survey a total of 4,928 middle school students aged from 12 to 18 years at school. Parent-child separation was investigated from four dimensions—occurrence of parental separation, separation status, age at first separation and duration of separation. Self-harm series are deemed as five subtypes—highly lethal self-harm, less lethal self-harm with visible tissue damage, self-harm without visible tissue damage, self-harmful behaviors with latent damage and psychological self-harm. Multivariate logistic regression is used to explore the associations between parent-child separation and different subtypes of self-harm among adolescents. Paternal separation is associated with each type of self-harm whilst maternal separation is not correlated with highly lethal self-harm. Except for highly lethal self-harm, the other four subtypes of self-harm demonstrate a relation with both length of paternal separation and maternal separation with aOR ranging from 1.02 to 1.06. Individuals who suffer parental separation prior to the age of three were at a higher risk for four types of less-lethal self-harm. The association of parent-child separation with self-harm deserves our attention, and future research is needed to identify the underlying mechanisms.
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spelling pubmed-88255022022-02-10 Childhood Separation From Parents and Self-Harm in Adolescence: A Cross-Sectional Study in Mainland China Zhou, Tao-Jie Yuan, Meng-Yuan Ren, Hao-Yang Xie, Guo-Die Wang, Geng-Fu Su, Pu-Yu Front Psychol Psychology As the prevalence of self-harm among adolescents in Chinese escalates, finding out the potential risk factors associated with self-harm behaviors has aroused much attention. This study aims to explore the association between parent-child separation and series of self-harm (SH) subtypes among Chinese adolescents. We survey a total of 4,928 middle school students aged from 12 to 18 years at school. Parent-child separation was investigated from four dimensions—occurrence of parental separation, separation status, age at first separation and duration of separation. Self-harm series are deemed as five subtypes—highly lethal self-harm, less lethal self-harm with visible tissue damage, self-harm without visible tissue damage, self-harmful behaviors with latent damage and psychological self-harm. Multivariate logistic regression is used to explore the associations between parent-child separation and different subtypes of self-harm among adolescents. Paternal separation is associated with each type of self-harm whilst maternal separation is not correlated with highly lethal self-harm. Except for highly lethal self-harm, the other four subtypes of self-harm demonstrate a relation with both length of paternal separation and maternal separation with aOR ranging from 1.02 to 1.06. Individuals who suffer parental separation prior to the age of three were at a higher risk for four types of less-lethal self-harm. The association of parent-child separation with self-harm deserves our attention, and future research is needed to identify the underlying mechanisms. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8825502/ /pubmed/35153880 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.645552 Text en Copyright © 2022 Zhou, Yuan, Ren, Xie, Wang and Su. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Zhou, Tao-Jie
Yuan, Meng-Yuan
Ren, Hao-Yang
Xie, Guo-Die
Wang, Geng-Fu
Su, Pu-Yu
Childhood Separation From Parents and Self-Harm in Adolescence: A Cross-Sectional Study in Mainland China
title Childhood Separation From Parents and Self-Harm in Adolescence: A Cross-Sectional Study in Mainland China
title_full Childhood Separation From Parents and Self-Harm in Adolescence: A Cross-Sectional Study in Mainland China
title_fullStr Childhood Separation From Parents and Self-Harm in Adolescence: A Cross-Sectional Study in Mainland China
title_full_unstemmed Childhood Separation From Parents and Self-Harm in Adolescence: A Cross-Sectional Study in Mainland China
title_short Childhood Separation From Parents and Self-Harm in Adolescence: A Cross-Sectional Study in Mainland China
title_sort childhood separation from parents and self-harm in adolescence: a cross-sectional study in mainland china
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8825502/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35153880
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.645552
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