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The advancement of science and technology has facilitated the emergence of relationship dissolution strategies mediated by electronic communication, such as ghosting on social media. This study aims to investigate how the frequency of being ghosted online affects Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) in adolescents, exploring the mediating roles of social avoidance and depression. A structural equation model was employed to assess 887 Chinese adolescents. The results reveal a significant positive impact of being ghosted online on NSSI. Depression alone was identified as the mediator between being ghosted online and NSSI. Social avoidance and depression demonstrated a sequential mediating effect on the relationship between being ghosted online and NSSI. The findings underscore the mental health implications of being ghosted and emphasize the importance of interventions addressing both social avoidance and depression to mitigate the adverse impacts of being ghosted online on NSSI behaviors.
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Now published ten times each year, this acclaimed journal provides refereed papers on significant research, scholarship, and practical approaches in the fast growing areas of bereavement and loss, grief therapy, death attitudes, suicide, and death education. It provides an international interdisciplinary forum in which a variety of professionals share results of research and practice, with the aim of better understanding the human encounter with death and assisting those who work with the dying and their families.
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