The Impact of Bullying Victimization on Self-injury Behavior Among Middle School Students:A Moderated Mediation Model
Objective:To explore the relationship between bullying victimization and self-injury behavior among mid-dle school students and its underlying mechanism.Methods:Delaware Bullying Victimization Scale-Student,Adolescent Self-Harm Questionnaire,Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7,and Social Support Rating Scale were used to conduct two-stage tracking measurements with a six-month interval on 1,081 middle school students.Results:(1)Bullying victimiza-tion significantly positively predicted self-injury behavior in middle school students;(2)Bullying victimization influenced self-injury behavior in middle students through the mediation of anxiety;(3)Social support moderated the direct path and the latter half of the path of the model,which was specifically shown as a decrease in bullying victimization's predictive ef-fect on self-injury behavior as the level of social support increased;and anxiety's positive effect on self-injury behavior was attenuated as the level of social support increased.Conclusion:There is a moderated mediating effect between bully-ing victimization and self-injury behavior among middle school students:anxiety is a mediator of the relationship between the two,and the mediating effect is moderated by social support.
Bullying victimizationSelf-injuryAnxietySocial support
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