The study was conducted to explore investigate the relationship and action mechanism between inter-parental conflict and self-injury in middle school students. 1072 middle school students were investigated by using Children’s Perception of Inter-parental Conflict Scale, Campus Personal Relationship Scale, Scale of Regulatory Emotional Self-efficacy, Self-esteem scale and Adolescents self-injury Scale.The result showed that self-injury was positively correlated with inter-parental conflict, and negatively correlated with campus interpersonal relationship, negative emotion regulation self-efficacy and self-esteem. Campus interpersonal relationship failed to play a mediating role effect between inter-parental conflict and self-injury, while negative emotions regulate self-efficacy and self-esteem both played a mediating role effect between inter-parental conflict and self-injury.Inter-parental conflict can influence self-injury through the chain mediation of school interpersonal relationship, negative emotion regulating self-efficacy and self-esteem.It was concluded that inter-parental conflict can not only directly affect self-injury in middle school students, but also influence on self-injury through the independent mediating effect of negative regulatory emotional self-efficacy and self-esteem, and indirectly affect self-efficacy through the chain mediating roles of campus interpersonal relationship and regulatory emotional self-efficacy and self-esteem.

Chunni Zhao, Xini Zhao. The Influence Mechanism of Inter-parental Conflict on Self-Injury of Middle School Students—The Chain Mediation Role of Campus Interpersonal Relationship, Negative Emotion Regulation of Self-Efficacy and Self-Esteem. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2024) Vol. 7, Issue 12: 11-17. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2024.071202.

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