Longitudinal Relations between Non-suicidal Self-injury,Negative Emotion,and Suicide Ideation among Early Adolescents
The current study aimed to explore the longitudinal relations between non-suicidal self-injury,negative emotion,and sui-cide ideation over time by applying the random intercept cross-lagged panel model to disentangle between-and within-person asso-ciations.A total of 1105 seventh graders were recruited to complete the self-report questionnaire of the level of non-suicidal self-in-jury,negative emotion,and suicide ideation.The results showed that:(1)At the between-person level,suicide ideation was significant-ly correlated to non-suicidal self-injury and negative emotion;non-suicidal self-injury and negative emotion showed a positive but non-significant association;(2)At the within-person level,the auto-regressive paths of non-suicidal self-injury and suicide idea-tion across time were significant;the auto-regressive path from T1 to T2 negative emotion was non-significant,but the auto-regres-sive path from T2 to T3 negative emotion was significant;(3)At the within-person level,T1 negative emotion significantly predicted T2 suicide ideation,and T2 suicide ideation significantly predicted T3 negative emotion;(4)At the within-person level,T1 suicide idea-tion significantly predicted T2 non-suicidal self-injury,and T2 non-suicidal self-injury significantly predicted T3 negative emotion and T3 suicide ideation.
early adolescentsnon-suicidal self-injurynegative emotionsuicide ideationrandom intercept cross-lagged panel a-nalysis