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Educational styles, peers’ approval and adolescent self-injurious behaviours

C MessinaCinzia NovaraFloriana RomanoGioacchino Lavanco

subject

Aggressionmedia_common.quotation_subjectAuthoritarianismeducational stylesStyle (sociolinguistics)Developmental psychologypeersself-injurious behavioursPerceptionPhenomenonSocial representationSettore M-PSI/07 - Psicologia DinamicamedicineGeneral Materials Sciencemedicine.symptomPsychologySocial psychologyself-injuriousadolescent peer groupmedia_common

description

The present research aims at understanding how the same body may became object of aggression and destruction by adolescents' self-injurious behaviours. Particularly, self-injurious behaviours are those finalised to destruction or deliberate alteration of one's body, even if without a conscious suicidal intention. The research aims at studying the relationship between educational styles, self-injurious behaviours and the social representation of the phenomenon in a group of adolescents aged between 15 and 19 years. Research has shown that on the basis of self-injurious behaviours there are the perception of an authoritarian educational style and approval by peers and brothers. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2010-01-01Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.798http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.798