TY - JOUR
PY - 2017//
TI - The influence of personality traits and emotional and behavioral problems on repetitive nonsuicidal self-injury in a school sample
JO - Comprehensive psychiatry
A1 - Lüdtke, Janine
A1 - Weizenegger, Benedict
A1 - Rauber, Rachel
A1 - Contin, Brigitte
A1 - In-Albon, Tina
A1 - Schmid, Marc
SP - 214
EP - 223
VL - 74
IS -
N2 - BACKGROUND: Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is highly prevalent among adolescents and associated with various mental health problems and suicidality. Previous studies have found that certain personality traits are related to NSSI behavior, however only few studies examined personality traits in adolescents with NSSI. Our study aimed to assess the relationship between personality traits and emotional and behavioral problems in predicting repetitive NSSI among adolescents from a school sample.
METHODS: Four hundred and forty-seven students (M=14.95years, SD=0.74, 52% male) completed self-report measures on NSSI, personality traits, and emotional and behavioral problems.
RESULTS: The past year prevalence of occasional and repetitive NSSI was 4.9% and 6.3% respectively. Repetitive NSSI was significantly associated with female gender, higher levels of age, novelty seeking, harm avoidance, self-transcendence, antisocial behavior, and positive self and lower levels of persistence and self-directedness in univariate analyses. However, multivariate logistic regression analyses indicated that only high levels of antisocial behavior and low levels of self-directedness significantly predicted repetitive NSSI.
CONCLUSIONS: The association between a lack of self-directedness and NSSI emphasizes the significance of targeting self-directedness in psychotherapy by strengthening self-awareness, affect tolerance and emotion regulation, as well as establishing and pursuing long-term goals.
Copyright © 2017. Published by Elsevier Inc. Language: en
LA - en
SN - 0010-440X
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2017.02.005
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