TY - JOUR
T1 - The Role of Basic Need Satisfaction in the Onset, Maintenance, and Cessation of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
T2 - An Application of Self-Determination Theory
AU - Emery, A. Ann
AU - Heath, Nancy L.
AU - Mills, Devin J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Copyright © International Academy for Suicide Research.
PY - 2017/7/3
Y1 - 2017/7/3
N2 - The present study applied self-determination theory to examine the onset, maintenance, and cessation of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in adolescents. Specifically, the study examined the relationship between the basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness, and NSSI status. Participants were classified into the NSSI Maintain (n = 30), NSSI Start (n = 44), NSSI Stop (n = 21), or Control (n = 98) groups based on NSSI status over 2 time points within a 12-month period. Repeated measures multiple analysis of variance was employed. Satisfaction of the need for competence decreased over time in all adolescents. Adolescents who maintained NSSI behavior reported significantly lower levels of need satisfaction compared to adolescents reporting no history of NSSI engagement, and adolescents who began NSSI over the course of the study reported significantly lower levels of need satisfaction compared to those reporting no history of NSSI engagement. The findings suggest that need satisfaction varies as a function of NSSI status.
AB - The present study applied self-determination theory to examine the onset, maintenance, and cessation of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in adolescents. Specifically, the study examined the relationship between the basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness, and NSSI status. Participants were classified into the NSSI Maintain (n = 30), NSSI Start (n = 44), NSSI Stop (n = 21), or Control (n = 98) groups based on NSSI status over 2 time points within a 12-month period. Repeated measures multiple analysis of variance was employed. Satisfaction of the need for competence decreased over time in all adolescents. Adolescents who maintained NSSI behavior reported significantly lower levels of need satisfaction compared to adolescents reporting no history of NSSI engagement, and adolescents who began NSSI over the course of the study reported significantly lower levels of need satisfaction compared to those reporting no history of NSSI engagement. The findings suggest that need satisfaction varies as a function of NSSI status.
KW - basic need satisfaction
KW - cessation
KW - maintenance
KW - non-suicidal self-injury
KW - onset
KW - self-determination theory
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U2 - 10.1080/13811118.2016.1211043
DO - 10.1080/13811118.2016.1211043
M3 - Article
C2 - 27439328
AN - SCOPUS:84982252387
VL - 21
SP - 413
EP - 424
JO - Archives of Suicide Research
JF - Archives of Suicide Research
SN - 1381-1118
IS - 3
ER -