220
Views
1
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

The subjective experience of non-suicidal self-injury among female Chinese university students

&
Pages 18-28 | Received 14 Jan 2021, Accepted 10 May 2021, Published online: 01 Jun 2021

References

  • Butler AM, Malone K. Attempted suicide v. non-suicidal self-injury: behaviour, syndrome or diagnosis? Br J Psychiatry. 2013;202(5):324–325.
  • Muehlenkamp JJ, Kerr PL, Bradley AR, et al. Abuse subtypes and nonsuicidal self-injury: preliminary evidence of complex emotion regulation patterns. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2010;198(4):258–263.
  • Nixon MK, Cloutier PF, Aggarwal S. Affect regulation and addictive aspects of repetitive self-injury in hospitalized adolescents. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2002;41(11):1333–1341.
  • Nock MK. Self-Injury. Annu Rev Clin Psychol. 2010;6(1):339–363.
  • Buser TJ, Hackney H. Explanatory style as a mediator between childhood emotional abuse and nonsuicidal self-injury. J Mental Health Counsel. 2012;34(2):154–169.
  • Carvalho CB, da Motta C, Sousa M, et al. Biting myself so I don't bite the dust: prevalence and predictors of deliberate self-harm and suicide ideation in Azorean youths . Braz J Psychiatry. 2017;39(3):252–262.
  • Jianing Y, Congfen M, Min-Pei L, et al. Comparing among the experiences of self-cutting, hitting, and scratching in chinese adolescents attending secondary schools: an interview study. Behav Disord. 2015;40(2):122–137.
  • Muehlenkamp JJ, Claes L, Smits D, et al. Non-suicidal self-injury in eating disordered patients: a test of a conceptual model. Psychiatry Res. 2011;188(1):102–108.
  • Briere J, Gil E. Self-mutilation in clinical and general population samples: prevalence, correlates, and functions. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 1998;68(4):609–620.
  • Baiden P, Stewart SL, Fallon B. The role of adverse childhood experiences as determinants of non-suicidal self-injury among children and adolescents referred to community and inpatient mental health settings. Child Abuse Negl. 2017;69:163–176.
  • Heath NL, Toste JR, Nedecheva T, et al. An Examination of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Among College Students. J Mental Health Counsel. 2008;30(2):137–156.
  • Nock MK, Prinstein MJ. A functional approach to the assessment of self-mutilative behavior. J Consult Clin Psychol. 2004;72(5):885–890.
  • Kokaliari ED. An exploratory study of the nature and extent of nonsuicidal self-injury among college women. Inter J Popul Res. 2014;2014:1–7.
  • Bryan C, Bryan A. Nonsuicidal self-injury among a sample of United States military personnel and veterans enrolled in college classes . J Clin Psychol. 2014;70(9):874–885.
  • Whitlock J, Eckenrode J, Silverman D. Self-injurious behaviors in a college population. Pediatrics. 2006;117(6):1939–1948.
  • Wilcox HC, Arria AM, Caldeira KM, et al. Longitudinal predictors of past-year non-suicidal self-injury and motives among college students. Psychol Med. 2012;42(4):717–726.
  • Dan W, Rockett IRH, Yang T, et al. Deliberate self-harm among chinese medical students: a population-based study. J Affect Disord. 2016;202:137–144.
  • Tresno F, Ito Y, Mearns J. Self-injurious behavior and suicide attempts among indonesian college students. Death Stud. 2012;36(7):627–639.
  • Tresno F, Ito Y, Mearns J. Risk factors for nonsuicidal self-injury in Japanese college students: the moderating role of mood regulation expectancies . Int J Psychol. 2013;48(6):1009–1017.
  • Hamza CA, Stewart SL, Willoughby T. Examining the link between nonsuicidal self-injury and suicidal behavior: A review of the literature and an integrated model. Clin Psychol Rev. 2012;32(6):482–495.
  • Barlow MR, Goldsmith Turow RE, Gerhart J. Trauma appraisals, emotion regulation difficulties, and self-compassion predict posttraumatic stress symptoms following childhood abuse. Child Abuse Negl. 2017;65:37–47.
  • Horgan M, Martin G. Differences between current and past self-injurers: how and why do people stop? Arch Suicide Res. 2016;20(2):142–152.
  • Hamza CA, Hamza CA, Willoughby T, et al. A longitudinal person-centered examination of nonsuicidal self-injury among university students. J Youth Adolesc. 2014;43(4):671–685.
  • Polk E, Liss M. Psychological characteristics of self-injurious behavior. Personal Individual Differences. 2007;43(3):567–577.
  • Victor SE, Klonsky ED. Daily Emotion in non-suicidal self-injury . J Clin Psychol. 2014;70(4):364–375.
  • Taliaferro LA, Muehlenkamp JJ. Risk factors associated with self-injurious behavior among a national sample of undergraduate college students. J Am Coll Health. 2015;63(1):40–48.
  • Cheng H-L, Mallinckrodt B, Soet J, et al. Developing a screening instrument and at-risk profile for nonsuicidal self-injurious behavior in college women and men. J Counsel Psychol. 2010;57(1):128–139.
  • Cheung YTD, Wong PWC, Lee AM, et al. Non-suicidal self-injury and suicidal behavior: prevalence, co-occurrence, and correlates of suicide among adolescents in Hong Kong. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2013;48(7):1133–1144.
  • Kleindienst N, Bohus M, Ludäscher P, et al. Motives for nonsuicidal self-injury among women with borderline personality disorder. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2008;196(3):230–236.
  • Shek DTL, Yu L. Self-harm and suicidal behaviors in Hong Kong Adolescents: prevalence and psychosocial correlates. Sci World J. 2012;2012:932540–932514.
  • You J, Leung F, Fu K, et al. The prevalence of nonsuicidal self-injury and different subgroups of self-injurers in chinese adolescents. Arch Suicide Res. 2011;15(1):75–86.
  • Curtis C. Young women’s experiences of self-harm: commonalities. Distinctions Complexities. Young. 2016;24(1):17–35.
  • Power J, Brown SL, Usher AM. Non-suicidal self-injury in women offenders: motivations, emotions, and precipitating events. Inter J Forensic Mental Health. 2013;12(3):192–204.
  • Boals A. Events that have become central to identity: gender differences in the centrality of events scale for positive and negative events. Appl Cognit Psychol. 2010;24(1):107–121.
  • Breslau N, Chilcoat HD, Kessler RC, et al. Vulnerability to assaultive violence: further specification of the sex difference in post-traumatic stress disorder. Psychol Med. 1999;29(4):813–821.
  • Solomon Z, Gelkopf M, Bleich A. Is terror gender-blind? Gender differences in reaction to terror events. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2005;40(12):947–954.
  • Wolfe T, Ray S. The role of event centrality, coping and social support in resilience and posttraumatic growth among women and men. Inter J Mental Health Promotion. 2015;17(2):78–96.
  • Brocki JM, Wearden AJ. A critical evaluation of the use of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) in health psychology. Psychol Health. 2006;21(1):87–108.
  • Tan SC, Tam CL, Bonn G. Feeling better or worse? The lived experience of non-suicidal self-injury among Malaysian University students. Asia Pacific J Counselling Psychother. 2019;10(1):3–20.
  • Forbes CN, Tull MT, Richmond JR, et al. Motives for nonsuicidal self-injury in individuals with lifetime depressive disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder. J Psychopathol Behav Assess. 2019;41(4):652–661.
  • Smith JA. 2009. Interpretative phenomenological analysis: theory, method and research. London: SAGE.
  • Riley EN, Combs JL, Jordan CE, et al. Negative urgency and lack of perseverance: identification of differential pathways of onset and maintenance risk in the longitudinal prediction of nonsuicidal self-injury. Behav Ther. 2015;46(4):439–448.
  • Smith JA. Evaluating the contribution of interpretative phenomenological analysis. Health Psychology Review. 2011;5(1):9–27.
  • Forrester RL, Slater H, Jomar K, et al. Self-esteem and non-suicidal self-injury in adulthood: a systematic review. J Affect Disord. 2017;221:172–183.
  • Mahtani S, Melvin GA, Hasking P. Shame proneness, shame coping, and functions of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) among emerging adults: a developmental analysis. Emerging Adulthood. 2018;6(3):159–171.
  • Breen AV, Lewis SP, Sutherland O. Brief report: non-suicidal self-injury in the context of self and identity development. J Adult Dev. 2013;20(1):57–62.
  • Osborn M, Smith JA. The personal experience of chronic benign lower back pain: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. Br J Health Psychol. 1998;3(1):65–83.
  • Voon D, Hasking P, Martin G. Emotion regulation in first episode adolescent non-suicidal self-injury: What difference does a year make? J Adolesc. 2014;37(7):1077–1087.
  • Burke TA, Hamilton JL, Abramson LY, et al. Non-suicidal self-injury prospectively predicts interpersonal stressful life events and depressive symptoms among adolescent girls. Psychiatry Res. 2015;228(3):416–424.
  • Chao RK. Beyond parental control and authoritarian parenting style - understanding Chinese parenting through the cultural notion of training. Child Dev. 1994;65(4):1111–1119.
  • Cecilia Sin-Sze C, Eva MP. Parents' involvement in children's learning in the united states and china: implications for children's academic and emotional adjustment. Child Development. 2011;82(3):932–950.
  • Chao RK. Cultural explanations for the role of parenting in the school success of Asian-American children. In: Taylor RD & Wang MC, editors. Resilience across contexts: family, work, culture, and community, Chapter xiii, 386 Pages. Mahwah (NJ): Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers; 2000. p. 333–363.
  • Nock MK, Prinstein MJ, Sterba SK. Revealing the form and function of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors: a real-time ecological assessment study among adolescents and young adults. J Abnorm Psychol. 2009;118(4):816–827.
  • Richmond S, Hasking P, Meaney R. Psychological distress and non-suicidal self-injury: the mediating roles of rumination, cognitive reappraisal, and expressive suppression. Arch Suicide Res. 2017;21(1):62–72.
  • Rogers CR. 1961. On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
  • Costigan CL, Hua JM, Su TF. Living up to expectations: the strengths and challenges experienced by Chinese Canadian students. Can J School Psychol. 2010;25(3):223–245.
  • Kim HS, Sherman DK. "Express yourself": culture and the effect of self-expression on choice . J Pers Soc Psychol. 2007;92(1):1–11.
  • Bowlby J. Attachment and loss: retrospect and prospect. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 1982;52(4):664–678.
  • Yakeley J, Burbridge-James W. Psychodynamic approaches to suicide and self-harm. BJPsych Advances. 2018;24(1):37–45.
  • Lovell-Hawker, D. (2003). Self-Injury: Psychotherapy with People who Engage in Self-inflicted Violence Robin E. Connors Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, 2000. pp. 418. £ 42.50 (hardback). ISBN: 0-7657-0264-9. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 31(2), 221
  • Connors R. Self-injury in Trauma Survivors: 1. Functions and Meanings. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 1996;66(2):197–206.
  • Higgins ET. Self-discrepancy: a theory relating self and affect. Psychol Rev. 1987;94(3):319–340.
  • Fox KR, Ribeiro JD, Kleiman EM, et al. Affect toward the self and self-injury stimuli as potential risk factors for nonsuicidal self-injury. Psychiatry Res. 2018;260:279–285.
  • Muehlenkamp JJ. Self-injurious behavior as a separate clinical syndrome. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2005;75(2):324–333.
  • Gratz KL, Roemer L. Multidimensional assessment of emotion regulation and dysregulation: development, factor structure, and initial validation of the difficulties in emotion regulation scale. J Psychopathol Behav Assess. 2008;30(4):315–315.
  • Marco JH, Garcia-Alandete J, Pérez S, et al. Meaning in life and non-suicidal self-injury: a follow-up study with participants with Borderline Personality Disorder. Psychiatry Res. 2015;230(2):561–566.
  • Perez Rodriguez S, Marco Salvador JH, Garcia-Alandete J. The role of hopelessness and meaning in life in a clinical sample with non-suicidal self-injury and suicide attempts. Psicothema. 2017;29(3):323–328.
  • Gross JJ. Antecedent- and response-focused emotion regulation: divergent consequences for experience, expression, and physiology. J Pers Soc Psychol. 1998;74(1):224–237.
  • Gong T, Ren Y, Wu J, et al. The associations among self-criticism, hopelessness, rumination, and NSSI in adolescents: A moderated mediation model. J Adolesc. 2019;72:1–9.
  • Xavier A, Pinto Gouveia J, Cunha M. Non-suicidal self-injury in adolescence: the role of shame, self-criticism and fear of self-compassion. Child Youth Care Forum. 2016;45(4):571–586.
  • McKay D, Andover M. Should nonsuicidal self-injury be a putative obsessive-compulsive-related condition? a critical appraisal. Behav Modif. 2012;36(1):3–17.
  • McEvoy PM, Hayes S, Hasking PA, et al. Thoughts, images, and appraisals associated with acting and not acting on the urge to self-injure. J Behav Therapy Exp Psychiatry. 2017;57:163–171.
  • Colleen ML, Komal SP. The relation between childhood maltreatment and self-injury: a review of the literature on conceptualization and intervention. Trauma Viol Abuse. 2011;12(1):23–37.
  • Armey MF, Crowther JH, Miller IW. Changes in ecological momentary assessment reported affect associated with episodes of nonsuicidal self-injury. Behav Ther. 2011;42(4):579–588.
  • Plener PL, Schumacher TS, Munz LM, et al. The longitudinal course of non-suicidal self-injury and deliberate self-harm: a systematic review of the literature. Borderline Personal Disord Emot Dysregul. 2015;2:2–2.
  • Rodav O, Levy S, Hamdan S. Clinical characteristics and functions of non-suicide self-injury in youth. Eur Psychiatry. 2014;29(8):503–508.
  • You J, Lin M-P, Leung F. Functions of nonsuicidal self-injury among Chinese community adolescents. J Adolesc. 2013;36(4):737–745.
  • Muehlenkamp JJ. Empirically supported treatments and general therapy guidelines for non-suicidal self-injury. J Mental Health Counsel. 2006;28(2):166–185.
  • Sleuwaegen E, Houben M, Claes L, et al. The relationship between non-suicidal self-injury and alexithymia in borderline personality disorder: “Actions instead of words". Compr Psychiatry. 2017;77:80–88.
  • Goodman FR, Larrazabal MA, West JT, et al. Experiential avoidance. [References]. In: Olatunji BO, editor. The Cambridge handbook of anxiety and related disorders. xiii, 883 p. New York (NY): Cambridge University Press;. 2019. p. 255–281.
  • Bateman A, Fonagy P. Mentalization based treatment for borderline personality disorder. World Psychiatry. 2010;9(1):11–15.
  • Bateman A, Fonagy P. Mentalization-based treatment. Psychoanal Inq. 2013;33(6):595–613.
  • Levine PA. In an unspoken voice: how the body releases trauma and restores goodness. Berkeley (CA): North Atlantic Books; 2010.
  • Simeon D, Hollander E. 2001. Self-injurious behaviors: assessment and treatment. London: American Psychiatric Press.
  • Figueroa MD. A dynamic taxonomy of self-destructive behavior. Psychotherapy. 1988;25(2):280–287.
  • Greenberg LS. Emotion–focused therapy. Clin Psychol Psychother. 2004;11(1):3–16.
  • Rhoades GK, Kamp Dush CM, Atkins DC, et al. Breaking up is hard to do: the impact of unmarried relationship dissolution on mental health and life satisfaction. J Family Psychol. 2011;25(3):366–374.
  • Arens AM, Gaher RM, Simons JS. Child maltreatment and deliberate self-harm among college students: testing mediation and moderation models for impulsivity. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2012;82(3):328–337.
  • D'Andrea W, Ford J, Stolbach B, et al. Understanding interpersonal trauma in children: why we need a developmentally appropriate trauma diagnosis. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2012;82(2):187–200.
  • Ford JD, Gómez JM. The relationship of psychological trauma and dissociative and posttraumatic stress disorders to nonsuicidal self-injury and suicidality: a review. J Trauma Dissociation. 2015;16(3):232–271.
  • Black EB, Kisely S. A Systematic Review: Non-Suicidal Self-injury in Australia and New Zealand's Indigenous Populations. Austr Psychol. 2018;53(1):3–12.
  • Wester KL, Trepal HC. Nonsuicidal self-injury: exploring the connection among race, ethnic identity, and ethnic belonging. J College Student Develop. 2015;56(2):127–139.
  • Jacobson CM, Muehlenkamp JJ, Miller AL, et al. Psychiatric impairment among adolescents engaging in different types of deliberate self-harm. J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2008;37(2):363–375.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.