Depressive symptoms and self-criticism: the mediating role of self-regulation and the moderating role of non-suicidal self-injury

Sónia Gonçalves; Célia Moreira; Bárbara Machado; Susana Fernandes; Jessica Silva

doi:10.14417/ap.2048

Depressive symptoms and self-criticism: the mediating role of self-regulation and the moderating role of non-suicidal self-injury

Sónia Gonçalves^*, Célia Moreira, Bárbara Machado, Susana Fernandes, Jessica Silva

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Introduction: Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is common among college students and is best understood as a self-soothing method for dealing with aversive emotional states. Aims: To analyse the pathway that sustains the association between NSSI, depressive symptomatology, emotion dysregulation and self-criticism in college students. Method: Three hundred eighty-five students (85.2% females) between 18 and 35 years old (M=20.71; SD=2.80) were evaluated. Results: In the non-NSSI and past-NSSI groups, higher depression increases self-criticism without impairing emotional regulation, a result that was not observed in the current-NSSI group. Therefore, emotion regulation mediated the relationship between depression and self-criticism, but only for the participants with current NSSI. Discussion: NSSI constitute a public health problem during college years. Overall, depressive symptomatology, emotional dysregulation, and self-criticism seem to contribute to a risk profile for the presence and maintenance of NSSI, thus being important for prevention, identification, and clinical intervention on university campuses.

Translated title of the contribution	Sintomas depressivos e autocrítica: o efeito mediador da autorregulação e moderador dos comportamentos autolesivos
Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	23-33
Number of pages	11
Journal	Análise Psicológica
Volume	42
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.14417/ap.2048
Publication status	Published - 2024

Keywords

College students
Depressive symptomatology
Emotion dysregulation
Non-suicidal self-injurious
Self-criticism

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