The role of parental bonding for self-harm adolescents

Abstract

This study explores how the Greek adolescents understand self-injury and whether they have self- harm episodes. For the purpose of this study the questionnaire of the CASE study and the parental bonding instrument was used. The main research question is to explore the reasons that lead an adolescent to self-harm. More specifically if the relationship with their parents and the function of the family plays a role for leading a teenager to self harm. One hundred Greek 14–17 years old participated in the study. The results show that 71% adolescents state that there is high mother care and 62% high mother protection and 63% high father care and 50% high father protection. Significant associations were made for self-harmers and the rest of the sample. There are statistically significant differences between those participants who self-harm and their parental bonding (χ 2 (2, n =100)=7.59, P 2 (4, n =100)=10.35, P