%0 Journal Article
%T Life events predicting the first onset of adolescent direct self-injurious behavior-a prospective multicenter study
%J Journal of Adolescent Health
%D 2019
%A Kaess, Michael
%A Eppelmann, Lena
%A Brunner, Romuald
%A Parzer, Peter
%A Resch, Franz
%A Carli, Vladimir
%A Wasserman, Camilla
%A Sarchiapone, Marco
%A Hoven, Christina W.
%A Apter, Alan
%A Balazs, Judit
%A Barzilay, Shila
%A Bobes, Julio
%A Cosman, Doina
%A Horváth, Lili O.
%A Kahn, Jean-Pierre
%A Keeley, Helen
%A McMahon, Elaine
%A Podlogar, Tina
%A Postuvan, Vita
%A Saiz, Pilar A.
%A Tubiana, Alexandra
%A Värnik, Airi
%A Wasserman, Danuta
%V ePub
%N ePub
%P ePub-ePub
%X PURPOSE: Self-injurious behavior is a frequent phenomenon in adolescence. The present study prospectively examined life events as risk factors for the first onset of direct self-injurious behavior (D-SIB) in the Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe school-based multicenter sample. <br><br>METHODS: Longitudinal assessments with an interval of 1 year were performed within a sample of 1,933 adolescents (51.47% females; mean age 14.84 ±.9 years) from 10 European countries and Israel. <br><br>RESULTS: The number of life events during the past 6 months predicted the first onset of D-SIB in the following year. Gender neither predicted the onset of D-SIB nor moderated the association with life events. Moreover, analyses of individual events identified a range of mainly interpersonal events within both family and peer group as proximal risk factors for first episode D-SIB. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The results support the critical role of interpersonal life events in the development of D-SIB for both genders and refine the conceptualization of proximal risk factors in terms of accumulated stressors and interpersonal events.<br><br>Copyright © 2019 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I Elsevier Publishing
%@ 1054-139X
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2019.08.018