investigate the role of loneliness and psychological distress in predicting self-harm behaviors in runaway girls
Subject Areas : Social Health
1 - Islamic Azad University, Khorasgan Branch, Isfahan, Iran
Keywords: psychological distress, Runaway Girls, self-harm behaviors, loneliness,
Abstract :
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of loneliness and psychological distress in predicting self-harm behaviors in adolescent girls with a history of running away from home. This research was a descriptive and correlational type of research. The statistical population of the current research was girls who referred to the social emergency of Isfahan city in the first half of 2023, and 92 people were selected by purposive sampling. The research tools include the self-harm questionnaire (Sanson, Yederman and Sanso, 1998), the emotional social loneliness questionnaire for adults (DiTomaso, Brannen and Best, 2004) which includes 3 subscales (family loneliness, romantic loneliness, social loneliness), psychological distress questionnaire. Psychological (Laviband and Laviband, 1995) which included 3 subscales (anxiety, depression, stress). In order to analyze the data, Pearson's correlation test and simultaneous regression were used. In this study, the average age of the participants was 15.95 and the standard deviation was 1.4. The findings showed that the feeling of loneliness and psychological distress has a positive and significant relationship with self-harm behaviors (P<0.05). The results showed that Mental disorders such as anxiety, depression, and stress, which are now very common, cause self-harm and self-harm behaviors in teenagers, and on the other hand, feelings of loneliness, especially family and social loneliness, can lead to self-harming behaviors in teenagers. So that teenagers feel calm after self-injury.