Dissertation > Excellent graduate degree dissertation topics show

Study on Self-Harm and the Related Factors in Adolescents

Author: ZhangJiXiang
Tutor: LiuJinTong
School: Shandong University
Course: Psychiatry and Mental Health
Keywords: self-harm adolescent influencing factors
CLC: R749.4
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
Downloads: 96
Quote: 0
Read: Download Dissertation

Abstract


[OBJECTIVE] This study aims to investigate the feature and related risk factors of self-harm behaviors in adolescents and provide basis for taking effective intervention measures that can improve the level of psychological health and supply the experience for the education from families and schools, even the whole society to prevent adolescents.[METHODS] Based on the convenient sample principle, the investigation was administered to 4176 middle school students from 8 schools of Linyi. All participants completed an anonymous questionnaire, including demographic variables, self-harm behaviors during the past 6 months, Sympton Checklist 90(SCL-90), Adolescent Self-rating Life Events Check-list (ASLEC) and Egma Minnen av Bardndosnauppforstran (EMBU). A total of 3957 questionnaires were reclaimed.The results were analyzed by using descriptive analysis, chi-square test, t test,and multiple factors Logistic regression analysis so on.[RESULTS]1. The incidence rate of self-harm behaviors is 27.60%, and by the reporting rates, the self-harm behaviors form can be sorted as following:self-cutting with fingernails, self-beating intentionally, self-scratch, self-bite, plucking hair, self-incising, head hitting, and self-scald. 2. The self-harm rate of girls was higher than that of boys; the rate of self-harm behaviors of students was higher in urban than in rural areas; the only-child were reported to commit more self-harm behaviors than non-only-child. There was distinct difference in self-harm rate of adolescents between girls and boys, urban adolescents and rural adolescents, and only-child and non-only-child.3. The total incidence rate of self-harm behaviors shows a rising trend accompanying with the decline in academic records.4. The adolescents’self-harm behaviors occurring are closely related to the psychological health status, stressful life events and their parents’parenting styles.5. Logistic regression analyses of the data with statistical difference shows that schoolgirls, urban students, only-child, students with poor academic performance, psychological disorder and life events and adolescents in stern parenting styles or overprotection and over intervention are more prone to self-harm.[CONCLUSION]1. The self-harm rate is high in adolescents.27.6% of the interviewees committed self-harm behaviors in the past half year. Girls, urban students, only-child committed more self-harm behaviors than their counterparts.2. The occurrence of self-harm behaviors in adolescents closely related to the psychological health status, stressful life events and their parents’parenting styles.3. Schoolgirls, living urban area, only child, poor academic performance, psychological disorder and life events and punishment, rejection, overprotection and over intervention of family education style are the risk factors for the adolescents’self-harm behaviors.4. Preventing and reducing the self-harm rate of adolescent depends on the joint efforts of family, school and societal to decrease the occurrence of life events, abstain overprotection and over intervention parenting styles, and improve the adolescents’psychological health status.

Related Dissertations

  1. A Comparative Study of the Relation between the Family Well-being and Mental Health of the Adolescent from Divorced and Undivorced Family,G449
  2. Study on the Variation of Soil Clay Minerals and Influence Factors in Karst Regions under Different Rocky Desertification, Southwest China,X171
  3. Sensation Seeking and Event-related Potentials CNV (Contingent Negative Variation) Study in Adolescents with Internet Game Addiction,R749.99
  4. Study on Method of Youth Fitness Evaluation,G804.49
  5. Adolescent behavior and intelligence relationship with social intelligence,B844.2
  6. Strengths Perspectives educational intervention adolescent mental flexibility and exploration,B844.2
  7. Adolescent romantic relationships Questionnaire and related research,B844.2
  8. Exploration of adolescent mental health education,B844.2
  9. Buss-Perry attacks questionnaire in 2757 college students in applied research,G645.5
  10. Cognitive behavior therapy for one case study of adolescents with PTSD,R749.5
  11. Youth and Education rescue lost values,G41
  12. The Emotionai Education Study of Painting Works in Senior Middle School,G633.955
  13. The Research Status Quo and Educational Proposals of Parent-adolescent Relationships,G78
  14. The Psychology of Aesthetic Education for Young People Based Quality Education in Film and Television,J90-4
  15. The Influence of Animation to Teenagers’ Morality and Values,J954
  16. Research on the Life-and-Death Education of Chinese Teenagers,G41
  17. On Growing Problems and Growing Factors in Dear Nobody by Adolescence Psychology,I561.074
  18. Research on Characteristics of Adolescent Risk Behavior and Exploration on Protection/Risk Model,D669.5
  19. Study for School Sports for Young People to Shape the Path of Personality,G812.45
  20. The Strategy Research of Using Mobile Media to Improve the Adolescent Moral Education Effect,G41
  21. Animation-Filmarteducationsecondary Exploration and Research,J954

CLC: > Medicine, health > Neurology and psychiatry > Psychiatry > Affective psychosis
© 2012 www.DissertationTopic.Net  Mobile