The research article “Romantic relationships and nonsuicidal self-injury among college students: The mediating role of emotion regulation” by Bárbara Cesar Machado (researcher from CEDH/Centre for Studies in Human Development, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Porto, Portugal) is co-authored with Sónia Gonçalves, Eliana Silva, Célia S. Moreira and Sofia Ramalho (researchers from Department of Applied Psychology, School of Psychology, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal).

 

Highlights: We evaluated emotion regulation as a mediator of the romantic relationships and NSSI; Emotion regulation mediated the effects of violence victimization on NSSI; Emotion regulation mediated the relationship between avoidance of intimacy/anxiety over abandonment and NSSI.

 

Silva, E., Machado, B. C., Moreira, C. S., Ramalho, S. & Gonçalves, S. (2017). Romantic relationships and nonsuicidal self-injury among college students: The mediating role of emotion regulation. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 50, 36-44.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2017.04.001

 

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