The Impact of Self-Consistency Congruence on Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in College Students: The Mediating Role of Negative Emotion and the Moderating Role of Gender

Yang Li, Keke He, Changfeng Xue, Chun Li () and Chuanhua Gu ()
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Yang Li: Mental Health Education Center and Education Development Research Institute, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330038, China
Keke He: Mental Health Education Center and Education Development Research Institute, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330038, China
Changfeng Xue: Mental Health Education Center and Education Development Research Institute, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330038, China
Chun Li: Department of Preschool Education, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266000, China
Chuanhua Gu: School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430000, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 19, 1-13

Abstract: Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) can be defined as the deliberate destruction of body tissues to generate harm. College students have a higher incidence of NSSI. With the deepening of research on college students’ NSSI, the connection between their self-consistency congruence and NSSI has drawn the attention of many scholars. The current study examined the association between self-concordance and NSSI, the mediating function of negative emotions, and the moderating role of gender. We surveyed 1020 college students from three universities in Jiangxi Province using a self-concordant scale, a NSSI questionnaire, and a negative emotion questionnaire. The results showed that self-concordance was negatively correlated with NSSI. There is an obvious negative connection between self-consistency congruence and negative emotions. There was a significant positive correlation between negative emotions and the NSSI scores. Negative emotions could mediate the association between self-consistency congruence and NSSI. Compared to males, females’ self-concordant effects on negative emotions are easier to moderate.

Keywords: self-consistency congruence; negative emotion; gender; non-suicidal self-injury (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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