Guan, Teik Ee and See, Ching Mey (2014) Self-hurt behaviours among adolescents in Penang. In: International Social Development Conference 2014 (ISDC 2014), 12 – 13 August 2014, Bayview Hotel Langkawi, Malaysia.

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Abstract

Adolescence is a stage of life characterized by growth and exploration (Super, 1957).At this stage, despite rapid growth in the physical body, adolescents are emotionally vulnerable. Hall (1904), therefore, used the term “storm and stress” to describe the adolescence stage. In the ever changing and diverse society, adolescents need to handle challenges and problems of family, school, and friends.Emotional or mental pain could cause many side effects.One of the side effects is adolescents trying to hurt themselves when they cannot handle problems.Concern about young people engaging in self-hurt behaviour has prompted many researchers to carry out studies in the west.Malaysia as a developing country with a population of 29.6 million comprises about 40% adolescents (Department of Statistics, Malaysia, 2013).Even though Malaysia has a relatively young population as compared to the west, little of the aetiology of self-hurt has been researched.To date, the state of wellbeing of our adolescents is uncertain.This study is therefore carried out using an instrument named Self-Hurt Assessment to investigate whether the self-hurt problems exist among 602 school-going adolescents in 12 schools in the state of Penang, Malaysia.The results and the implications are discussed

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information:	ISBN: 978-967-0474-74-8 Organized by: School of Social Development (SSD), UUM College of Arts and Sciences, Universiti Utara Malaysia.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	self-hurt behaviours, adolescents
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions:	School of Applied Psychology, Social Work & Policy
Depositing User:	Mrs. Norazmilah Yaakub
Date Deposited:	01 Mar 2015 03:40
Last Modified:	15 May 2016 00:55
URI:	https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/13259

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