Depression and Hostility in Self‐Mutilation

Abstract

The presence of depression and hostility among self-mutilating patients is investigated. Mutilators, depressives and controls comprised the research samples. Non-significant differences in intropunitive hostility and depression were found between the clinical groups. Specific item differences in the depression assessment indicated a definite qualitative rather than quantitative difference in depressive symptomatology between the clinical groups. The interaction between hostility and depression and the implications for management based on these results is discussed.

Eating‐disordered patients with and without self‐injurious behaviours: a comparison of psychopathological features

“…Again, the fact that we found less aggressive behaviour in our patients can be due to the fact that our results are based on a self-report questionnaire, in which social desirability can play a distorting role. Furthermore, we found-in the same way as Bennum (1983)-that selfinjurious patients show a stronger degree of self-abasement and selfcriticism, including guilt and self-punitiveness, than patients without SIB. From these findings one may conclude that SIB patients turn their anger against themselves (and not against others) because of guilt feelings and self-punitiveness as is often described in the literature (Simeon & Hollander, 2001).…”

Functional consistency across two behavioural modalities: fire‐setting and self‐harm in female special hospital patients

“…Whilst burning self is not a majority behaviour (occurring in 44% of incidents), it is interesting to note that it is most common type of self-harm amongst this sample of firesetters. Also the commonly occurring item, anger at others, is about twice as prevalent to the rates that have been reported in previous studies (Gardner and Gardner, 1975;Roy, 1978;Bennum, 1983). It is evident that there are some items, characteristic of most incidents that are common to fire-setting and self-harm: depression, physical aggression and verbal aggression.…”

“…Research has found that 10-32% of self-harmers report anger towards others leading up to acts of self-harm (Gardner and Gardner, 1975;Roy, 1978;Bennum, 1983). Simpson (1976) draws attention to the association between poor verbal ability, particularly with difficulties expressing needs and emotions, and self-harm.…”

Erkek Hükümlü ve Tutukluların Boyun Eğici Davranışları, Depresyon ve İntihar Olasılıkları

“…(Nö rop si ki yat ri Ar fli vi 2014; 51: [40][41][42][43][44][45] Anah tar ke li me ler: Hükümlü ve tutuklular, boyun eğici davranışlar, depresyon, intihar olasılığı çıkar çatışması: Yazarlar bu makale ile ilgili olarak herhangi bir çıkar çatışması bildirmemişlerdir. …”