The influence of maternal attachment and psychological resilience on risk of non-suicidal self-injury of adolescents
Objective:To explore the influence of maternal attachment and psychological resilience on adolescents'risk of non-suicidal self-injury.Method:Fifty-seven outpatients and hospital patients in Anhui Mental Health Center from January 2019 to July 2019 with non-suicidal self-injury(NSSI)and their mothers were involved as the case group,and fifty-three age-,gender-,and education-matched healthy adolescents and their mothers as the normal controls.They were assessed with the adolescents self-harm scale,the experience in close relationship inventory(ECR)and the Conner-Davidson resilience scale(CD-RISC).Results:The study group scored higher in the total attachment score and each dimension than the control group,and was lower in the total score of psychological resilience and each dimension(all P<0.05);adolescent self-injury behavior was positively associated with maternal attachment anxiety,attachment avoidance and total attachment score,and was negatively associated with tenacity,strength,optimism score and psychological resilience total score(all P<0.05);Logistic regression analysis showed that unsafe maternal attachment(B = 2.56,P<0.001)and the low-er psychological resilience level(B =1.94,P<0.001)could lead to greater NSSI risk of adolescents.Conclusion:Unsafe maternal attachment and the lower psychological resilience level may be the risk factors for adolescents with NSSI.