Non-Suicidal Self-Injury and Depressive Symptoms During Adolescence: Testing Directionality.

ABSTRACT: As risk for both non-suicidal self-injury and depression increases at adolescence, it is critically important to clarify equivocal findings regarding the temporal ordering of these health concerns. Addressing the limitations of past research, which included the use of only two data waves and analyses that do not account for within-person variance, the aim in this study was to examine the temporal ordering of non-suicidal self-injury and depressive symptoms during adolescence. Two independent samples were examined. One sample (first used by Marshall et al., 2013) consisted of 799 Swedish adolescents (11 to 15 years, M_age = 13.18, SD = 0.74; 51% girls). The second sample was a later cohort of adolescents from the same area (N = 2760; aged 12 to 18 years, M_age = 13.75, S

SUBMITTER: Tilton-Weaver L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12420763 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature