This study examines non-suicidal self-injury by college students in terms of adult attachment and emotion dysregulation. A data set including 110 college students was analyzed for descriptive statistics, correlations, and mediation analysis by using P...
This study examines non-suicidal self-injury by college students in terms of adult attachment and emotion dysregulation. A data set including 110 college students was analyzed for descriptive statistics, correlations, and mediation analysis by using PROCESS Macro version 4.2 (Model 4). The results of this study are as follows. First, the direct effect of attachment anxiety on non-suicidal self-injury was not significant. However, in the relationship between attachment anxiety and non-suicidal self-injury, the mediating effect of emotion dysregulation was significant. Second, the direct effect of attachment avoidance on non-suicidal self-injury was significant, and in the relationship between attachment avoidance and non-suicidal self-injury, the mediating effect of emotion dysregulation was significant. These results provide evidence that attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance affect non-suicidal self-injury through differential pathways, and they emphasize the importance of emotion dysregulation.