@article{ref1,
title="Non-suicidal self-injury in eating disordered patients: A test of a conceptual model",
journal="Psychiatry research",
year="2011",
author="Muehlenkamp, Jennifer J. and Claes, Laurence and Smits, Dirk and Peat, Christine M. and Vandereycken, Walter",
volume="188",
number="1",
pages="102-108",
abstract="A theoretical model explaining the high co-occurrence of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in eating disordered populations as resulting from childhood traumatic experiences, low self-esteem, psychopathology, dissociation, and body dissatisfaction was previously proposed but not empirically tested. The current study empirically evaluated the fit of this proposed model within a sample of 422 young adult females (mean age=21.60; S.D.=6.27) consecutively admitted to an inpatient treatment unit for eating disorders. Participants completed a packet of questionnaires within a week of admission. Structural equation modeling procedures showed the model provided a good fit to the data, accounting for 15% of the variance in NSSI. Childhood trauma appears to have an indirect relationship to NSSI that is likely to be expressed via relationships to low self-esteem, psychopathology, body dissatisfaction, and dissociation. It appears that dissociation and body dissatisfaction may be particularly salient factors to consider in both understanding and treating NSSI within an eating disordered population.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0165-1781",
doi="10.1016/j.psychres.2010.12.023",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2010.12.023"
}