The relationship between difficulties in emotion regulation and self-injurious behavior of junior high school students

DOI: 10.18173/2354-1075.2021-0043

Abstract

To study the relationship between emotional management difficulties and self-injurious behaviour in junior high school students, the author used the survey method by questionnaire and the multiple-choice process to conduct the study to survey 347 junior high school students in Hue city. Research results show that 39.5% of students have ever self-injured. The forms of self-injury are diverse; Difficulties in emotion regulation, alexithymia, emotion reactivity and self-injurious behaviour are strongly correlated. Difficulties in emotion regulation and emotion reactivity had a linear correlation with self-injurious behaviour, and it accounted for 27.2% of the variation in the self-injurious behaviour score. This study shows that school counsellors, teachers, and parents need to pay attention to the emotional management difficulty in counselling and therapy for middle school students with self-injurious behaviour.