The first study of a mentalizing mediator model in a community sample of nonsuicidal self-injured adolescents and its association with salivary oxytocin
The present study revealed that mentalizing partially mediated the associations between childhood trauma and NSSI, suggesting that the mentalizing trauma model is equally applicable to the community NSSI population. This is the first study to explore the relationship between peripheral OT levels and NSSI behavior, with results suggesting that baseline salivary OT concentrations are not reliable biomarkers for NSSI in community samples.
Authors
- Chengjin Chu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0606-449X)
- Yibin Lu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8766-7155)
- Yanhua Zhou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4099-4893)
- Jie Zhang
- Zhixiong Lin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4898-7441)
- Zihan Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8384-7678)
Institutions
- Guangdong Medical College (CN)
- Zhongshan People's Hospital (CN)
- Dongguan People’s Hospital (CN)
- Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College Hospital (CN)
- Guangzhou Medical University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Psychiatry
- Published
- 2025-08-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1590441
- Primary Topic
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Division of Graduate Education