Predicting Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Based on Exposure, Outcome Expectancies, and Avoidance Self-Efficacy in Students of the University of Guilan

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Master of General Psychology, General Psychology, University of Guilan, Guilan, Iran

2 . Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Guilan, Guilan, Iran

3 Professor. Department of Psychology. University of Guilan. Guilan. Iran

Abstract

 
Introductoin: Considering the role of cognitive and environmental factors in the occurrence and maintenance of self-injury the aim of this study is to predict non-Suicidal self-injury based on the exposure, outcome expectancies, and avoidance self-efficacy in students
Method: This research is a descriptive correlational study. The research sample was 264 students of the University of Guilan in the academic year 2019-2020 who were selected by convenience sampling. In order to collect data Sanson's et al. (1996) Self-Harm Inventory, Zelkovich & Cole's (2014) Social Exposure to Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Scale, Hasking and Rose's (2016) Non-suicidal Self-injury expectancy Questionnaire and self-efficacy scale of avoiding NSSI by Czyz et al. (2014) were used. Data were analyzed by multiple regression analysis.
Results: The results of multiple regression analysis showed that 44.3% of the variance of non-suicidal self-injury is predicted by exposure to non-suicidal self-injury, outcome expectancies, and avoidance self-efficacy, and among those, avoidance self-efficacy and outcome expectancies had the highest share with a prediction of 24.8% and 23.8% of non-suicidal self-injury variance, respectively.
Discussion and Conclusion: Given that exposure to non-suicidal self-injury, outcome expectancies, and avoidance self-efficacy can predict non-suicidal self-injury, the findings of this study can greatly help prevent this behavior and planning educational and treatment programs so that students are less exposed to the damage caused by this behavior.

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Clinical Psychology and Personality
Volume 20, Issue 1 - Serial Number 38
September 2022
Pages 75-87

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