Beyond deficits: which executive functions link to which NSSI behaviors? A network analysis
Yang He, Songyue Hong, Yajun Tian, Lin He, Keiwei Sun, Tao Xu · 2026
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Specific self-harm acts connect to specific thinking skills in a 2026 network study by Yang He and colleagues. Surveys from 1,300 Chinese adolescents measured inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility, and working memory alongside 12 self-injury behaviors, then mapped partial correlations between them.
Inhibitory control linked most strongly to punching walls or objects, working memory to biting oneself, and flexibility to pinching oneself. Scratching oneself sat at the network's center, while punching served as a key bridge between skill and behavior clusters. A fine-grained map like this could help clinicians match support to the exact behaviors an adolescent shows.
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| CREATOR | Yang He, Songyue Hong, Yajun Tian, Lin He, Keiwei Sun, Tao Xu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41993 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |