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To explore how parental verbosity links to non-suicidal self-injury in Chinese pre-adolescents through mediating factors.

May 21, 2026Scientific ReportsOpen Access

Attentional negativity and emotional symptoms as serial mediators linking parental verbosity to non-suicidal self-injury in Chinese pre-adolescents

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Randomized trial examines the relation between parental verbosity and NSSI in pre-adolescents, suggesting emotional pathways influence behavior.

To explore how parental verbosity links to non-suicidal self-injury in Chinese pre-adolescents through mediating factors.
1,452 pre-adolescents aged 10-12 years were recruited from Tianjin, China.
Data was collected through multi-informant reports for emotional symptoms and parental verbosity.
Serial mediation analyses were conducted using Hayes' PROCESS macro.
Parental verbosity positively correlated with attentional negativity index (ANI) and emotional symptoms.
Significant indirect effect of parental verbosity on NSSI through ANI and emotional symptoms (indirect effect = 0.024, 95% CI [0.004, 0.049]).
Overall indirect effect was non-significant across all pathways, suggesting complexity in the mechanisms.

Cui et al. (2026) studied this question.

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Randomized trial examines the relation between parental verbosity and NSSI in pre-adolescents, suggesting emotional pathways influence behavior.