Citation

Chao Q, Yang X, Luo C. Am. J. Men. Health 2015; 10(6): NP1-NP10.

Affiliation

Institute for Rural Development of Shaanxi Social Science Academy, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1557988315579096

PMID

25846771

Abstract

In Western research, self-injurious behaviors are commonly viewed as "feminine" behavior. In this present study, using the data from a survey administered to 960 first- and second-year students in Xi'an Jiaotong University in China, the self-injurious behaviors among college students are analyzed by sex. The results reported that the average prevalence of self-injurious behaviors among male students is 35.2%, higher than the 20.4% observed among female students (p <.1), and the average frequency of severe self-injurious behaviors among male students is 0.4, higher than the 0.18 reported among female students (p <.05). Gender role conflicts and verbal violence are strongly associated with male students' self-injurious behaviors, whereas gender role conflicts and verbal, visual, and sexual violence are strongly associated with female students' self-injurious behaviors. This suggests that self-injurious behaviors among college students in China constitute, to some extent, a boy crisis that can be well explained by gender role conflicts. In addition, verbal violence leads to self-injurious behaviors among both male and female students, whereas visual and sexual violence lead to self-injurious behaviors only among female students.

Language: en