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As the number of adolescents who identified as transgender in the sample is too small to draw informative statistical conclusions, subsequent analysis will compare only participants who identified as either male or female.
Note that although gender and age were measured at T1, logically neither NSSI nor emotion regulation can prospectively predict gender and so these cross-sectional relationships were modelled with single-headed arrows.
In order to assess the role of continuity of NSSI prior to T1, the cross-lagged model described above was re-analysed with Lifetime NSSI at T1 (i.e., all young people who reported at T1 a lifetime history of NSSI) predicting T2 Recent NSSI and T2 Emotion Regulation. A similar pattern of results was found.
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This research was made possible by grant 11/645 from the Health Research Council of New Zealand. We wish to thank Gloria Fraser and Gina M. Grimshaw for their valuable assistance and feedback during the preparation of this manuscript, as well as Laina Isler for her assistance with statistical analyses.
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Robinson, K., Garisch, J.A., Kingi, T. et al. Reciprocal Risk: the Longitudinal Relationship between Emotion Regulation and Non-suicidal Self-Injury in Adolescents. J Abnorm Child Psychol 47, 325–332 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-018-0450-6
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