In collaboration with Payame Noor University and Iranian Association of Social Psychology

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 PhD Student of Counseling, science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University,Tehran, Iran.

2 Associate Professor of Counseling. , Abhar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Abhar, Iran.

3 Professor Department of counseling, Al-Zahra University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Aim: Self-injury is a mechanism adolescents use to protect their fragile selves from the pressures of this period,  which often cause severe physical and mental harm to themselves.  To prevent or reduce these behaviors in adolescents, it is necessary to obtain appropriate information about this structure and identify the factors affecting them; therefore, the research was conducted to model the structural relationships between social cognition and identity styles, and self-injury behaviors with mediating role of self-compassion in adolescents. Method:  The research method was correlational with the structural equations modeling type. The statistical population of the study included all adolescents aged 14-16 years, studying in public schools in Karaj in the academic year 2020-2021, from whom 247 people were selected online using the convenience sampling method. The identity Styles Inventory (Berzonsky, 1989), Social Cognition Inventory (Nejati, et al., 2018), Self-Injury Behavior Inventory (Klonsky & Glenn, 2009) Self-compassion Scale (Neff, 2003) were applied to collect data. Results: The results of the evaluation of the proposed model by structural equations in SPSS23 and Smart PLS3 software showed the direct and negative significant effects of identity styles (P < 0.01) and self-compassion (P < 0.05) on self-injury behaviors. Conclusion: The direct and negative effects of social cognition on self-injury behaviors were significant (P < 0.05), but the indirect effects of social cognition on self-injury behaviors were not significant.

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