TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - The impact of parent-child attachment on self-injury behavior: negative emotion and emotional coping style as serial mediators
JO  - Frontiers in psychology
A1  - Tao, Yun
A1  - Bi, Xiao-Yan
A1  - Deng, Min
SP  - e1477
EP  - e1477
VL  - 11
IS  - 
N2  - In order to explore the relationship between parent-child attachment, negative emotion, emotional coping style, and self-injury behavior, 662 junior high school students in four junior middle schools in China's Yunnan Province were investigated using a parent-child attachment questionnaire, adolescent negative emotion questionnaire, emotional coping style scale, and adolescent self-injury behavior scale. As a result, two mediate models were created to explain how parent-child attachment affects self-injury behavior. Negative emotion and emotional coping style play serial mediating roles in mother-child and father-child attachment models, respectively. The results show that negative emotion mediates between self-injury behavior and both father-child and mother-child attachment, while emotional coping style only functions between father-child attachment and self-injury behavior. By means of bootstrap analysis, negative emotion and emotional coping style have serial mediating roles concerning the impact of parent-child attachment on self-injury behavior. By comparison, the father-child and mother-child attachment have different mediating models: the former relies on emotional coping style, while the latter is associated with emotional experiences. This implies that parent-child attachment has different mechanisms in triggering self-injury behavior, which is in line with the hypothesis of attachment specificity.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1664-1078
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01477
ID  - ref1
ER  -