@article{ref1,
title="Correlates of non-suicidal self-injury and suicide attempts in bulimic spectrum disorders",
journal="Frontiers in psychology",
year="2016",
author="Gómez-Expósito, Alexandra and Wolz, Ines and Fagundo, Ana B. and Granero, Roser and Steward, Trevor and Jimenez-Murcia, Susana and Agüera, Zaida and Fernández-Aranda, Fernando",
volume="7",
number="",
pages="e1244-e1244",
abstract="Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the implication of personality, impulsivity, and emotion regulation difficulties in patients with a bulimic-spectrum disorder (BSD) and suicide attempts (SA), BSD patients with non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), and BSD patients without these behaviors.   Method: 122 female adult BSD patients were assessed using self-report questionnaires. Patients were clustered post-hoc into three groups depending on whether they presented BSD without NSSI or SA (BSD), BSD with lifetime NSSI (BSD+NSSI) or BSD with lifetime SA (BSD+SA).   Results: The BSD+NSSI and BSD+SA groups presented more emotion regulation difficulties, more eating and general psychopathology, and increased reward dependence in comparison with the BSD group. In addition, BSD+SA patients specifically showed problems with impulse control, while also presenting higher impulsivity than both the BSD and BSD+NSSI groups. No differences in impulsivity between the BSD and BSD+NSSI groups were found.   Conclusions: The results show that BSD + NSSI and BSD+SA share a common profile characterized by difficulties in emotion regulation and low reward dependence, but differ in impulsivity and cooperativeness. This suggests that self-injury, in patients without a history of suicide attempts (i.e. BSD+NSSI), may have a regulatory role rather than being due to impulsivity.p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1664-1078",
doi="10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01244",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01244"
}