@article{ref1,
title="Risk factors for deliberate self-harm among female college students: The role and interaction of childhood maltreatment, emotional inexpressivity, and affect intensity/reactivity",
journal="American journal of orthopsychiatry",
year="2006",
author="Gratz, Kim L.",
volume="76",
number="2",
pages="238-250",
abstract="Despite the clinical importance of deliberate self-harm, research on the risk factors for self-harm among nonclinical populations has been limited. This study examined the role of childhood maltreatment, emotional inexpressivity, and affect intensity/reactivity in the self-harm behavior of 249 female college students. Childhood maltreatment and low positive affect intensity/reactivity reliably distinguished women with frequent self-harm from women with no history of self-harm, as did the combination of greater maltreatment, greater inexpressivity, and higher levels of affect intensity/reactivity (global and negative). Among women with a history of self-harm, emotional inexpressivity was associated with more frequent self-harm, as was the combination of greater maltreatment, greater inexpressivity, and lower levels of positive affect intensity/reactivity.   <p></p>  <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0002-9432",
doi="10.1037/0002-9432.76.2.238",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0002-9432.76.2.238"
}