The Study of Teenagers’ Self-injure and Resilient Factors in Central Taiwan.

• Main Authors: Ya-Yu Cheng, 程雅妤
• Other Authors: Su-Qing Pan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58580183033043042523

碩士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 諮商與應用心理學系碩士班 === 97 === The study is to explore self-harmers’ life experience, to discover resilient factors which prevent them from self-injure, and to examine what benefits these resilient factors provide. Qualitative approach was adopted in this study. Four participants who fit interviewee’s criterion were selected through researcher’s interpersonal network and internet. The researcher had semi-structured interviews with participants. After transferring the interview information verbatim into the manuscripts, the researcher used thematic analysis to analyze interview data. The findings of study are as following: 1. Teenagers’ self-injurious experience (1)Teenagers who self- injure begin this behavior during the period of the junior and senior high. Hammering the wall with fists and cutting are primary ways adopted. Self-injurious behaviors are frequent but not fatal. (2) The purpose of self-injury varies, including curiosity, displacement, emotional relaxation, self expression, sense of existence, attention seeking, mental symbolic meaning, and spiritual death. Emotional relaxation is the top reason behind their repeated self-harm behaviors. 2. The resilient factors of self-injurious teenagers. (1)Reasons of self-injurious behaviors are complicated. Most interviewees lack of self-efficacy. When they endure serious familial or stressful incidents, self-injurious behaviors are more likely to occur. (2) While perceiving resilient factors from individual, family, and social perspectives, self-encouragement, effective emotion-adjustment, improvement in family atmosphere, peers-support, receiving counseling or psychotherapy are main protective factors that prevent interviewees from hurting themselves. 3. The benefit of self-harmers’ life adaptation from resilient factors. Self-harmers with resilience affirm themselves positively, develop effective emotion regulation methods to drain negative emotion, build positive relationship actively with their families or friends and show active life attitude. According to research finding, suggestions for educational institutes, family education organizations, and further studies are also recommended.