@article{ref1,
title="The prevalence of deliberate self-harm and its relationships to trauma and dissociation among Iranian young adults",
journal="Journal of trauma and dissociation",
year="2016",
author="Nobakht, Habib Niyaraq and Dale, Karl Yngvar",
volume="18",
number="4",
pages="610-623",
abstract="This study aims to investigate the prevalence of Deliberate self-harm and its relationship to childhood and recent trauma and different patterns of dissociative features. 100 men and 100 women among college students were administered a 58-item questionnaire designed to detect the extent of dissociation, Deliberate self-harm and trauma history, respectively. Participants with Deliberate self-harm behaviors reported more traumatic experiences and dissociative features than participants without such behaviors. Furthermore, the prevalence of Deliberate self-harm, i.e. 40.5%, was similar to previous studies on college student populations. However, and contrary to earlier research, Deliberate self-harm was significantly more prevalent among men (48%) than women (33%).The findings support the notion that trauma, pathological dissociation and depersonalization/derealization play important functional roles in self-harm behaviors. In this perspective, it is feasible to understand individuals who engage in self-harm as either escaping from uncomfortable dissociative states or experiencing an infra-psychological conflict where one dissociative part of the self is being abusive towards another.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1529-9732",
doi="10.1080/15299732.2016.1246397",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15299732.2016.1246397"
}