The Relationship Between Self-conscious Emotions and Self-criticism with Students' Depression: The Mediating Role of Self-injury
Journal of Research in Psychopathology
مقاله 7 ، دوره 7، شماره 1 - شماره پیاپی 23 ، اردیبهشت 2026، صفحه 58-68 اصل مقاله (1.21 M )
نوع مقاله: Original Article
شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22098/jrp.2025.17575.1322
نویسندگان
Omid Yasini* 1 ؛ Seyed Mosa Kafi 2 ؛ Abas Abolghasemi 2
1 Master in Psychology, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran
2 Professor of the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran
چکیده
Depression is one of the most important debilitating diseases that has involved a large number of people in the world today and affects their ability to function, thinking, emotions, and excitement. Several studies investigated the relationship between depression and self-conscious emotions, self-criticism and self-injury; however, investigating the mediating role of self-injury in the relation between self-conscious emotions and self-criticism with depression, as well as developing a suitable model for it, have been neglected. This research has been carried out with correlation design and using structural equation modeling method. The research sample was 724 people who were selected among the undergraduate students of Guilan University in the academic year of 2023-2024. The research tools included Beck et al.'s depression scale-2 (1996), Wiederman and Sanson's non-suicidal self-injury scale (1998), Tangney et al.'s self-conscious emotions scale (2000), and Thompson and Zuroff's self-criticism scale (2003). Data analysis was also done using path analysis method and bootstrap test. The research results have showed that the model has a good fit. Also, the research findings have showed that self-injury plays a mediating role in the relationship between self-conscious emotions and depression, as well as between self-criticism and depression (P <0.001). According to the obtained results, self-injury can intensify the negative effects of self-criticism and negative self-conscious emotions on depression. Therefore, these factors should be taken into consideration in planning prevention methods as well as educational and therapeutic programs and should be planned, compiled and implemented at the level of universities and higher institutions.
کلیدواژهها
Depression ؛ Guilt ؛ Self-conscious emotions ؛ Self-criticism ؛ Self-injury ؛ Shame
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