Your support is my healing: the impact of perceived social support on adolescent NSSI - a sequential mediation analysis

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between perceived social support and adolescent non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) behavior. 3539 adolescents were recruited to complete the Multidimensional Social Support Scale, Hope Scale, Resilience Scale for Chinese Adolescents and NSSI Scale. The results showed that perceived social support significantly negatively predicted adolescent NSSI behavior, and resilience played a mediating role between perceived social support and adolescent NSSI behavior. In addition, perceived social support could also promote the levels of adolescent resilience through hope, thereby further reducing the frequency of adolescent NSSI behavior. The results suggest that the intervention of adolescent NSSI can start from providing a safe and effective external environment.