Abstract

MEZA DE LA LUNA, María Elena; ROVELO ESCOTO, Nubia Carolina; GAYOU ESTEVA, Ursula  and  CONCEPCION VALVERDE, José Pablo. Cutting in young people and its association with family relationships. Rev. de psicol. y cienc. del comport. de la Unidad Académica de Cienc. Juríd. y Sociales [online]. 2019, vol.10, n.2, pp.87-99.  Epub Sep 13, 2021. ISSN 2007-1833.  https://doi.org/10.29059/rpcc.20192611-93.

Cutting is one of the primary practices of self-injury in young people and one that remains hidden. We investigate this practice in young people and its association with family relationships, based on gender; and its manifestation between the rural and urban strata. We made a cross-sectional study with a random sample in San Juan del Río, Mexico (n = 1,630 high school students) using a survey. Cutting occurs in 21.26% of the people in the sample (34.47% of women and 7.77% of men; OR=6.24 [IC: 4.23-9.22], χ2=170.06, p<0.001), without mediating statistical difference in urban and rural areas (χ2 =0.001, gl=1, p=0.99). In young people, negligent family relationships are a risk factor for cutting. In women, it is a risk to have parents who are authoritarian, exercise physical and/or psychological violence. Hence, cutting is a problem that occurs in a large proportion of the young population, especially women. The results demonstrate the need to promote public policy to address the issue from a gender perspective and impact on the field of family relationships.

Keywords : cutting; family relationships; parental styles; youth; gender; Mexico.