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Record W4414815679 · doi:10.11621/npj.2025.0404

A Study of Coping Strategies, Maladaptive Thinking Tendencies and Alexithymia in Students with Intentional Non-Suicidal Self-Harming Behaviour

2025· article· en· W4414815679 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueNational Psychological Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicSuicide and Self-Harm Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAlexithymiaToronto Alexithymia ScaleRuminationCoping (psychology)CognitionCognitive style

Abstract

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Background. Non-suicidal self-harming behaviour (NSSHB) is now widespread among young people in the world, the number of acts of which, including the one-time ones, can reach, according to various estimates, up to a quarter of the total number of students. Objectives. The study achieved three goals: to study methods and differences in the models of non-suicidal self-harming behaviour (NSSHB) in a sample of students from different subject areas, possible links between non-suicidal self-harming behaviour (NSSHB) and various cognitive impairments, and to study the mechanisms of various cognitive impairments that support NSSHB. Study Participants. The study involved 617 respondents aged 17 to 25 years (Mage = 23.4; SD = 6.53; 475 women (77%) and 142 men (23%), students of various profiles, 400 students of psychological profile of higher education. Methods. The study was carried out on the basis of a survey design using three questionnaires: the scale for the degree of depressing rumination (I-RS), coping styles (CSQ-3), the Toronto alexithymia assessment scale (TAS), and the NSSHB questionnaire. To process quantitative data, regression analysis is used — logistic regression Omnibus test, Cronbach’s α coefficient, Student’s t-criterion. Results. Participants with NSSHB scored significantly higher on maladaptive coping styles and psychology students on alexithymia. These differences were especially noticeable among students with recurrent and recent NSSHB. The maladaptive orientation of thinking and the factor of alexithymia turned out to be the most significant predictors of self-harm behaviour. About 10% of students with NSHB committed self-harm for the first time while studying directly at a university. Psychological profile students are more characterized by NSSHB than students of other profiles (χ2 = 5.54; df = 1; p = 0.019). Conclusions. The results confirm the importance of psychological support services in universities, and the need for further research into the psychological mechanisms of NSSHB. Students who have difficulty recognizing their own emotional states are less able to identify and apply strategies for enduring distress or solving underlying psychological problems.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.043
Threshold uncertainty score0.706

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Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
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Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.051
GPT teacher head0.400
Teacher spread0.349 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it