@article{ref1,
title="Association of direct and indirect aggression and victimization with self-harm in young adolescents: a person-oriented approach",
journal="Development and psychopathology",
year="2019",
author="Daukantaité, Daiva and Lundh, Lars-Gunnar and Wångby-Lundh, Margit",
volume="31",
number="2",
pages="727-739",
abstract="We sought to determine which patterns of direct and indirect aggression and victimization are most clearly associated with self-harm in adolescent girls and boys cross-sectionally at two time points, as well as prospectively over one year. A cluster analysis using the LICUR procedure (Bergman, 1998) was employed to identify stable patterns of aggression and victimization in a community cohort of 883 Swedish adolescents (51% girls; mean age 14.5). The results showed that a pattern combining high aggression with high victimization was consistently associated with high levels of self-harm in both genders, both cross-sectionally and prospectively. Additionally, this pattern of aggressive victims was a clear risk factor for the development of repetitive self-harm over a one-year period in both girls (odds ratio 13.58) and boys (odds ratio 5.72). We also found several gender differences: In girls, subgroups characterized by high victimization (aggressive victims and non-aggressive victims) had the highest levels of self-harm, whereas in boys the patterns characterized by high aggression (aggressive victims and aggressive non-victims) seemed more relevant. The findings concerning the aggressive victim cluster are clear warning signs of severe psychopathology and possible psychiatric diagnosis in this subgroup of girls and boys.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0954-5794",
doi="10.1017/S0954579418000433",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954579418000433"
}