Emotional regulation and selfharm tendency in adolescents

Authors

  • Aulia Navysha Universitas Hang Tuah
  • Dewi Mustami’ah Universitas Hang Tuah
  • Andi Maulida Rahmania Universitas Hang Tuah

Keywords:

selfharm, emotional regulation, Spearman’s rho

Abstract

Selfharm behavior often occurs among adolescents,  the number of victims who experience this action continues to increase every year. This study aims to determine the relationship between emotional regulation and the tendency to self harming adolescents. This study is a quantitative setting, survey method. Respondents in this study consisted of 153 students at SMP X in Surabaya. Data analysis was carried out using the Spearman's rho test,  the sampling technique was random sampling. Data collection was carried out using two scales, namely the emotional regulation scale and the self harm scale. The significance value (sig) obtained was 0.208 (p> 0.05), which indicates that there is no relationship between emotional regulation and selfharm. These results confirm that there is no significant relationship between emotional regulation and selfharm. The correlation coefficient value is 0.103, which is also smaller than the r table value at a significance level of 5%, which is 0.159.

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08/29/2025

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Navysha, A., Mustami’ah, D., & Rahmania, A. M. (2025). Emotional regulation and selfharm tendency in adolescents. MERITUM : Jurnal Ilmiah Mahasiswa Psikologi, 1(1), 30–38. Retrieved from https://meritum.hangtuah.ac.id/index.php/meritum/article/view/12

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