@article{ref1,
title="Affect toward the self and self-injury stimuli as potential risk factors for nonsuicidal self-injury",
journal="Psychiatry research",
year="2017",
author="Fox, Kathryn R. and Ribeiro, Jessica D. and Kleiman, Evan M. and Hooley, Jill M. and Nock, Matthew K. and Franklin, Joseph C.",
volume="260",
number="",
pages="279-285",
abstract="Few risk factors for nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) have been identified. This study investigated diminished aversion toward self-injury (i.e., NSSI, suicide/death stimuli) and self-criticism as unique NSSI risk factors. After terminating a treatment study, 154 adults with a recent and frequent NSSI history completed self-report and computer-based measures of psychopathology, implicit and explicit self-criticism, and implicit aversion to NSSI and suicide/death. Participants were then contacted 4 weeks later to test factors predicting NSSI frequency over this follow-up period. Diminished aversion toward NSSI stimuli and self-criticism significantly predicted NSSI 4 weeks later. These effects were unique from other theoretically important predictors, such as past week NSSI frequency and total number of NSSI methods used. <br><br>FINDINGS provide support that erosion of barriers to NSSI (e.g., aversion to self-injurious stimuli, decreased self-worth) may facilitate continued engagement in these dangerous behaviors. <br><br>RESULTS shed light on potential treatment targets for NSSI.<br><br>Copyright © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0165-1781",
doi="10.1016/j.psychres.2017.11.083",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2017.11.083"
}