TY - JOUR PY - 2021// TI - Emotional response inhibition to self-harm stimuli interacts with momentary negative affect to predict nonsuicidal self-injury urges JO - Behaviour research and therapy A1 - Burke, Taylor A. A1 - Allen, Kenneth J. D. A1 - Carpenter, Ryan W. A1 - Siegel, David M. A1 - Kautz, Marin M. A1 - Liu, Richard T. A1 - Alloy, Lauren B. SP - e103865 EP - e103865 VL - 142 IS - N2 - The current study investigated whether impaired emotional response inhibition to self-harm stimuli is a risk factor for real-time nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) urges. Participants were 60 university students with a history of repetitive NSSI. At baseline, participants completed an emotional stop-signal task assessing response inhibition to self-harm stimuli. Participants subsequently completed an ecological momentary assessment protocol in which they reported negative affect, urgency, and NSSI urge intensity three times daily over a ten-day period. Impaired emotional response inhibition to self-harm stimuli did not evidence a main effect on the strength of momentary NSSI urges. However, emotional response inhibition to self-harm images interacted with momentary negative affect to predict the strength of real-time NSSI urges, after adjusting for emotional response inhibition to neutral images. Our findings suggest that emotional response inhibition deficits specifically to self-harm stimuli may pose vulnerability for increased NSSI urge intensity during real-time, state-level negative affect.
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LA - en SN - 0005-7967 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2021.103865 ID - ref1 ER -