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It is very crucial to study the issues related to adolescents. One of the behaviors that have caused public concern about adolescents' health is self-injurious behavior. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between motivational value characters and self-injurious behaviors in adolescents mediated by emotional regulation.

 The present research method is descriptive and correlational. The sample consists of 200 female high school students in Rasht in the academic year 2020-2021 who participated in the study conducted by available sampling method through online calling. Data collection tools included The Self-Harm Inventory (SHI) (Sanson et al. 1998), Schwartz's Value Survey (SVS) (Schwartz, 1992), and Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) (Gross and John, 2003). The data were analyzed by structural equation modeling using SPSS23 and Amos26 software.

The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between personal focus values and social focus values with reappraisal and a negative and significant relationship with suppression. There is a significant negative relationship between social focus values and self-injurious behaviors and a significant negative and positive relationship between reappraisal and suppression of self-injurious behaviors (P<0.001). There was no significant relationship between personal focus values and self-injurious behaviors. The results also showed that the indirect effect of motivational value characters on self-injurious behaviors through emotional regulation is significant (P<0.001).

The present study emphasizes the mediating role of emotional regulation in the relationship between motivational value characters and self-injurious behaviors. Strengthening and internalizing effective motivational value characters and emotional regulation-based interventions may be effective in preventing or treating the symptoms of self-injurious in adolescents.

Today, adolescent women and girls live in a complex and challenging world compared to the past due to social, geographical, cultural, and economic evolution, and consequently, their social needs and desires have changed. Adolescence is one of the most influential and important stages in a person's life. It is associated with psychological and physical changes. One of the prevalent and high–risk behaviors, which is more prevalent in adolescence, is self–harming. This behavior can have numerous psychological and physical consequences for individuals and society; most people do not approve of it. This study aimed to determine the pattern of social skills, communication, and controlling emotion with self–harm in women aged 25–20, considering the mediating role of depression and experience of violence.

The method of the present study was descriptive–analytical using structural equation modeling. The statistical population comprised all women aged 20–25 years living in Karaj City, Iran, in 2020. Of whom 350 were enrolled in the study by purposeful sampling according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. After a complete and clear explanation of the study objectives and procedure and observing ethical considerations such as confidentiality of samples' information and names, the researcher asked the participants to answer the questionnaires carefully. The inclusion criteria were as follows: having normal intelligence, willingness and informed consent to cooperate and participate in research, and having self–harm behaviors at a significant level based on Self–Harm Inventory results (Sansone & Sansone, 2010). The exclusion criterion was not answering the questions accurately. To collect data, we used Self–Harm Inventory (Sansone & Sansone, 2010), Beck Depression Inventory (Beck et al., 1996), the Teenagers Social Skills Inventory (Inderbitzen & Foster, 1992), Emotion Control Questionnaire (Roger & Najarian, 1989), and Violence against Women Inventory (Haj–Yahia, 2003). The proposed model was evaluated by structural equation modeling using SPSS26 and AMOS24 software at a significance level 0.05. The bootstrap method was used to analyze the intermediate relationships.

Results showed that social skills (p<0.001, β=–0.450) and emotional control (p=0.003, β=–0.183) had direct and negative effects on self–harm. Also, depression (p<0.001, β=0.440) and the experience of violence (p<0.001, β=0.372) had positive and direct effects on self–harm. The indirect effects of social skills on self–harm with the mediating role of depression and experience of violence were –0.244 and –0.2812, respectively (p<0.001). The indirect effects of emotional control on self–harm with the mediating role of depression and experience of violence were –0.1628 (p<0.001) and –0.0962 (p=0.003), respectively. In addition, good fit indices supported the optimal fit of the model with the collected data (PCFI=0.545, PNFI=0.530, χ2/df=2.82, RMSEA=0.072, IFI=0.908, CFI=0.907 and GFI=0.911).

Based on the results of the present study, it is possible to identify some predictive conditions of self–harming behaviors in women. By strengthening social skills and emotion control, it is possible to reduce self–harming behaviors in women, and depression and the experience of violence weaken this relationship. Considering these conditions, measures can be taken to reduce self–harming behaviors in women.

Self-injurious behaviors are related to psychological problems. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of impulse control, cognitive strategies of emotional regulation, tolerance of emotional distress and rumination in predicting self-harm behaviors in adolescents referred to temporary harm reduction centers in Tehran.

This research was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population of the present study included adolescents aged 14 to 18 years who referred to the Transitional Injury Reduction Centers (DIC) in Tehran, District 12 (Shosh-Harandi neighborhood) in the first four months of 2022, who were referred by a simple random sampling method. 300 people were selected to these centers. Research tools include Self-Injury Questionnaire (SHI) (Sansone et al., 1998), Impulsivity Scale (BIS-11) (Barrett et al., 2004), Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) (Garnefski et al., 2001), Tolerance Scale Emotional Distress (DTS) (Simons & Gaher, 2005) and Rumination Scale (RRS) (Hoeksema & Morrow, 1991) Was. In order to analyze the data, Pearson's correlation test and multiple linear regression were used simultaneously.

The results have shown that there is a positive and significant relationship between impulse control and rumination with self-harm behaviors and a negative and significant relationship between emotional cognitive regulation and emotional distress tolerance with self-harm behaviors (p<0.01).

Also, the results of the regression analysis showed that impulse control, emotional regulation cognitive strategies, emotional distress tolerance and rumination explain a total of 0.83 of self-harm behaviors.There is a relationship between impulse control, cognitive strategies of emotional regulation, tolerance of emotional distress and rumination with self-harm behaviors in adolescents referred to transitory harm reduction centers in Tehran

 It is important to pay attention to the self-injury behaviors in adolescence as one of the high-risk behaviors with adverse consequences for the individual and society.

 This study aims to investigate the mediating role of emotion regulation strategies in the relationship between emotional abuse in childhood and self-injury behaviors in female adolescents.

 This is an analytical cross-sectional study. Participants were 200 female high school students in Rasht, Iran in the academic year 2020-2021 who were selected using a convenience sampling method. Data collection tools included the self-harm inventory (SHI), childhood trauma questionnaire (CTQ), and emotion regulation questionnaire (ERQ). The collected data were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) and path analysis in SPSS Software v. 23 and Amos v. 26.

 There was a significant relationship between emotional abuse and self-injury behaviors (P<0.001). The reappraisal domain had a significant negative relationship with emotional abuse and self-injury behaviors, and the suppression domain had a significant positive relationship with emotional abuse and self-injury behaviors. Emotion regulation strategies had partial mediating role in the relationship between emotional abuse and self-injury behaviors (P<0.001).

 Considering the mediating role of emotion regulation strategies, more attention to the use of these strategies should be paid to reduce the occurrence of self-injury behaviors in female adolescents.

Autism is a neuropsychological disorder that causes secondary impairment in personal, social, and academic functioning. This study aimed to develop an effective intervention program based on functional communication training (FCT) on stereotyped behaviors, challenging behaviors and self-harming behaviors in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

This was an applied experimental research with pretest-posttest-followup design with a control group. The statistical population of  this study included all children with level one ASD, aged 4 to 8 years in Tehran in 2019, From which 25 children were selected by purposive sampling from Padideh Clinic in Tehran and randomly assigned to the experimental and the control groups. Then the experimental group received the intervention program in fifteen sessions. The instruments of the study included the Gilliam Autism Rating Scale (GARS-2) (James and Giliam, 2003), the Autism spectrum Screening Questionnaire (ASSQ) (Ehlers and Gillberg, 1993), the Child’s Challenging Behavior Scale (CCBS) (Bourke‐Taylor et al, 2010) and the Behavior Problems Inventory (BPI-01) (Rojahn et al, 2001). Data were analyzed by the analysis of covariance in the SPSS statistics-26 software.

The results of the univariate and multivariate analysis of covariance showed that there was a significant difference between the experimental and the control groups in the variables of challenging behaviors and components of behavioral problems (P<0.001). The effect sizes for the variables of challenging behaviors and components of stereotyped behaviors and self-harming behaviors were 0.922, 0.850 and 0.832, respectively. The results of the paired samples t-test showed that the effect of  FCT program in the follow-up stage also had a significant and valid effect on the variables of challenging behaviors and components of behavioral problems.

According to the research findings, it can be concluded that a treatment program based on the FCT can be used as an intervention to reduce the clinical symptoms of children with ASD. The results of this study can benefit therapists and educators who are in contact with children with ASD.