TY - JOUR PY - 2020// TI - Resilience mediates the association between school bullying victimization and self-harm in Chinese adolescents JO - Journal of affective disorders A1 - Ran, Hailiang A1 - Cai, Le A1 - He, Xingting A1 - Jiang, Linling A1 - Wang, Tianlan A1 - Yang, Runxu A1 - Xu, Xiufeng A1 - Lu, Jin A1 - Xiao, Yuanyuan SP - 115 EP - 120 VL - 277 IS - N2 - OBJECTIVE: The association between school bullying and self-harm (SH) in adolescents has been extensively discussed. Nevertheless, little is known about the mechanism of this relationship, particularly the role of resilience. Our research aimed to explore and evaluate the potential moderation and mediation of resilience in the association between school bullying victimization and SH in a large sample of Chinese adolescents. METHOD: We conducted a population-based cross-sectional survey of 3146 adolescents in southwest China. The data were collected by a self-administered questionnaire. Multivariate Logistic regression which incorporated the product term of bullying victimization and resilience was used to estimate the moderation of resilience. Mediation of resilience in bullying victimization and SH were evaluated by path model. RESULTS: The prevalence of bullying involvement and SH were 13.13% (95% CI:9.31%-18.00%) and 47.0% (95% CI: 36.3%-58.0%), respectively. School bullying victimization was positively associated with SH. Resilience was a prominent mediator which accounted for 27.7% of the total association. Among all five dimensions of resilience, emotion regulation (30.90%), interpersonal assistance (24.78%), and family support (22.16%) showed the strongest mediation. Nevertheless, the moderation of resilience in this association was not statistically significant. CONCLUSIONS: The findings of the present study suggest that resilience strengthening measures, particularly those aimed at improving emotion regulation ability and building social support could be effective in reducing school bullying victimization related SH behaviors among Chinese teenagers.
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LA - en SN - 0165-0327 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.07.136 ID - ref1 ER -