prediction of non-suicidal self-injury based on attachment styles in high school female students

Background and objective: the increase in self-injurious behaviors is a concern about adolescents and is related to people’s attachment styles. the present study used the descriptive-correlation method to predict self-harm based on attachment styles with the mediating role of emotion dysregulation in high school female students.methods: the statistical population of this study included all the female high school students in autumn and winter 2022-2023 in pasargad city, fars province, of which 337 students aged 13 to 18 years participated in the convenience sampling. in this research, three questionnaires were used including the self-harm inventory (shi), the attachment scale of collins and read (1990), and the difficulty in emotion regulation scale (ders). data analysis was conducted in spss-24 and amos-24 software with pearson correlation coefficient and bootstrap statistical tests.findings: the findings showed that there was a significant correlation between attachment styles and self-harm, difficulty in emotion regulation and self-harm, and finally between attachment styles and emotion dysregulation at the 0.01 level. the chi-squared value was significant with 56.29 at the 0.001 level.conclusion: the results demonstrated that emotion dysregulation played a mediating role between attachment styles (secure and avoidant) and self-harm, and their path coefficient was negative, and the anxious attachment style had a positive effect on self-harm due to the difficulty in emotion regulation.