@article{ref1,
title="Online self-injury activities among psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents: prevalence, functions, and perceived consequences",
journal="Research on child and adolescent psychopathology",
year="2021",
author="Nesi, Jacqueline and Wolff, Jennifer C. and Spirito, Anthony and MacPherson, Heather A. and Lawrence, Hannah R. and Burke, Taylor A.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="The majority of adolescents with psychiatric disorders use social media, engaging in a range of online activities that may confer both risks and benefits. Very little  work, however, has examined engagement in online activities related to self-injury  among these youth, such as posting about self-injury, viewing self-injury related  content, or messaging about self-injury with online or offline friends. This study  examined the frequency and types of online self-injury activities in which  adolescents engage, perceived functions that these activities serve, and associated  risk for self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs). Participants were 589  psychiatrically-hospitalized adolescents (M(age) = 14.88), who completed self-report  measures assessing online self-injury activities, perceived functions and  consequences of these activities, and SITBs. <br><br>RESULTS indicated that 43.3% of the  sample had engaged in online self-injury activities, that the majority (74.8%) used  social networking sites (e.g., Snapchat, Instagram) to do so, and that these  activities were significantly more common among sexual and gender minority youth. Adolescents who talked about self-injury with friends met online were more likely to  report a history of suicide attempt(s). A latent profile analysis revealed three  distinct subgroups of youth based on their perceived functions of engaging in online  self-injury activities. Subgroups reporting higher levels of engagement for purposes  of identity exploration, self-expression, and aiding recovery were at heightened  risk for negative perceived consequences of these activities and reported greater  suicidal ideation severity. <br><br>FINDINGS offer new insights for identifying youth who  may be at heightened risk for SITBs in the context of social media use.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2730-7166",
doi="10.1007/s10802-020-00734-4",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-020-00734-4"
}