Cimino Silvia, Cerniglia Luca
Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology and Health Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Faculty of Psychology, International Telematic University UniNettuno, Italy.
BJPsych Open. 2023 Jan 26;9(1):e24. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2022.634.
Youth violence has become a worrying public health issue worldwide. In Europe and the USA, research has shown a prevalence of this phenomenon ranging from 30 to 70% in boys.
This descriptive study aimed to evaluate psychological profiles of male adolescents involved in fights with their peers.
Identity consolidation was evaluated with the Self-Concept and Identity Measure; defence strategies were assessed by the Response Evaluation Measure for Youth; emotion regulation was assessed with the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale and mentalisation capacity was evaluated by the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire.
Through a series of multivariate analyses of variance, our results showed that adolescents reporting four or more fights in the past year, when compared with peers reporting none or fewer than four fights, displayed lower identity consolidation, greater use of immature defence strategies, poorer emotion regulation processes and poorer mentalisation capacity.
The results of this study could be useful for the promotion of prevention and intervention programmes to stem fights among adolescents.
青少年暴力已成为全球令人担忧的公共卫生问题。在欧洲和美国，研究表明这种现象在男孩中的发生率在30%至70%之间。
这项描述性研究旨在评估与同龄人打架的男性青少年的心理特征。
使用自我概念与身份测量工具评估身份认同整合；通过青少年反应评估量表评估防御策略；使用情绪调节困难量表评估情绪调节能力，并通过反思功能问卷评估心理化能力。
通过一系列多变量方差分析，我们的结果显示，与报告无打架或打架次数少于四次的同龄人相比，在过去一年中报告有四次或更多次打架的青少年表现出较低的身份认同整合、更多地使用不成熟的防御策略、较差的情绪调节过程和较差的心理化能力。
本研究结果可能有助于推广预防和干预计划，以阻止青少年之间的打架行为。
