Document Type : Research Paper

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2 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Tabriz

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The aim of this study was to check the relationship between ego strength and tissue relationships with adolescents' self-harming behaviors mediated by emotion regulation. The present study was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population in this study was all male high school students in Tabriz in the academic year 1398-999, from which 190 people were selected by convenience sampling. In this study, Igo Mohammad Ali Besharat's strength scale (2007), Sanson et al.'s self-harm questionnaire (1998), Mahmoud No Dargahfard family's emotional questionnaire (1373), اد Chu and Chang peer perception questionnaire (2012), the Sernkovich & Giordano School Connection Scale (1992), and the Grass & John Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (2003) were used, and the data were analyzed using the path analysis method. Data analysis showed that ego strength and tissue relationships were significantly associated with adolescents' self-injurious behaviors. That is, increasing the strength of the ego and improving tissue relationships can significantly reduce self-harming behaviors in adolescents. Emotion regulation can also mediate the relationship between ego strength and tissue relationships to adolescents' self-injurious behaviors. The results show that the strength of Igubala causes adolescents to increase their tolerance capacity for failures and adversities. Safe and healthy tissue relationships also protect adolescents from self-harming behaviors as a protective factor.

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