TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding the social context of adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury
AU - Victor, Sarah E.
AU - Klonsky, Elisha David
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
PY - 2018/12
Y1 - 2018/12
N2 - Objective: Research investigating the social context of adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) has been limited. We therefore examined social characteristics of NSSI, such as knowledge of friends’ NSSI and the role friends play in continuing NSSI, and their relationships to other known NSSI correlates, such as suicidality. Method: We assessed NSSI characteristics, including social features, in a community sample of 89 self-injuring adolescents. We also assessed psychosocial correlates of NSSI, including impulsivity, self-concept, and psychiatric symptoms. Results: Knowledge of friends’ NSSI was relatively common among self-injurers. In addition, knowledge of friends’ NSSI was associated with use of more NSSI methods, cutting behaviors, and suicidal ideation, but not with other NSSI correlates. However, teaching or encouragement of NSSI by friends was rare. Conclusions: Knowledge of friends’ NSSI may serve as marker of increased severity among adolescent self-injurers. These findings have implications for identifying and intervening with high-risk self-injuring youth.
AB - Objective: Research investigating the social context of adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) has been limited. We therefore examined social characteristics of NSSI, such as knowledge of friends’ NSSI and the role friends play in continuing NSSI, and their relationships to other known NSSI correlates, such as suicidality. Method: We assessed NSSI characteristics, including social features, in a community sample of 89 self-injuring adolescents. We also assessed psychosocial correlates of NSSI, including impulsivity, self-concept, and psychiatric symptoms. Results: Knowledge of friends’ NSSI was relatively common among self-injurers. In addition, knowledge of friends’ NSSI was associated with use of more NSSI methods, cutting behaviors, and suicidal ideation, but not with other NSSI correlates. However, teaching or encouragement of NSSI by friends was rare. Conclusions: Knowledge of friends’ NSSI may serve as marker of increased severity among adolescent self-injurers. These findings have implications for identifying and intervening with high-risk self-injuring youth.
KW - adolescents
KW - nonsuicidal self-injury
KW - social
KW - suicide
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U2 - 10.1002/jclp.22657
DO - 10.1002/jclp.22657
M3 - Article
C2 - 29931667
AN - SCOPUS:85056595122
SN - 0021-9762
VL - 74
SP - 2107
EP - 2116
JO - Journal of Clinical Psychology
JF - Journal of Clinical Psychology
IS - 12
ER -