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Non-suicidal Self-injury in Different Eating Disorder Types: Relevance of Personality Traits and Gender.
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European Eating Disorders Review . Nov2015, Vol. 23 Issue 6, p553-560. 8p. 3 Charts. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- The study explored lifetime prevalence of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in female and male individuals with eating disorders (ED) and compared ED symptoms, general psychopathology and personality traits across individuals with and without a history of NSSI. The incremental discriminative capacity of gender on the manifestation of lifetime NSSI was also studied. A total sample of 1649 consecutively admitted ED patients (1515 women and 134 men) participated in the current study [339 ED + NSSI (ED with NSSI) and 1310 ED − NSSI (ED without NSSI)]. Specific self-report measures were included and other clinical and psychopathological indices. The observed lifetime prevalence of NSSI was 20.6% (20.9% in women and 17.2% in men). NSSI was not associated with ED type or gender. However, ED + NSSI patients exhibited more impulsive behaviour, substance-abuse disorders and additional impulse-control disorders, were younger and had more previous treatments. Age was shown to affect the presentation of NSSI. Additionally, ED + NSSI patients exhibited more severe ED and general psychopathological symptoms and had more dysfunctional personality traits when compared with ED − NSSI. ED + NSSI was found to be positively associated with harm avoidance and self-transcendence but negatively with reward dependence, self-directedness and cooperativeness. Thus, the variables with stronger capacity to identify the presence of ED + NSSI were younger age, harm avoidance, self-directedness and self-transcendence. A lack of association between sex and ED subtype with the presence of NSSI was observed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *ANALYSIS of variance
*ANOREXIA nervosa
*BEHAVIOR
*BULIMIA
*CHI-squared test
*CONFIDENCE intervals
*EATING disorders
*PERSONALITY
*PATHOLOGICAL psychology
*PSYCHOMETRICS
*QUESTIONNAIRES
*RESEARCH funding
*SELF-evaluation
*SELF-mutilation
*SEX distribution
*SUBSTANCE abuse
*SOCIOECONOMIC factors
*DATA analysis software
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*ODDS ratio
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10724133
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- European Eating Disorders Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 111238763
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.2374