Students who self-harm: Coping style, Rumination and Alexithymia

Religion, ethnicity, coping style, and self-reported self-harm in a diverse non-clinical UK population

“…The associations between psychometric scores of coping styles and self-harm, noted in previous research (Borrill, Fox, Flynn, & Roger, 2009) seem more complex when analysed separately for different religious and ethnic groups. Black participants had lower rates of cutting and higher scores on Rational coping which fits with the idea that self-harm is associated with maladaptive coping styles.…”

The association between nonsuicidal self-injury and the emotional disorders: A meta-analytic review

“…Thus, NSSI often serves functions equivalent to the attempts to avoid negative emotional experiences that maintain the emotional disorders. Indeed, the association of avoidant coping strategies characteristic of emotional disorders (e.g., rumination, thought suppression) with engagement in and severity of NSSI is now well-established (e.g., Bentley, Sauer-Zavala, & Wilner, in press;Borrill, Fox, Flynn, & Roger, 2009;Hilt, Cha, & Nolen-Hoeksema, 2008;Howe-Martin, Murrell, & Guarnaccia, 2012;McKay & Andover, 2012;Najmi, Wegner, & Nock, 2007;Nolen-Hoeksema, Wisco, & Lyubomirsky, 2008;Voon, Hasking, & Martin, 2014).…”

The mediating role of coping strategy in the association between family functioning and nonsuicidal self‐injury among Taiwanese adolescents

“…Similarly, the Experiential Avoidance Model of NSSI (Chapman, Gratz, & Brown, ) proposes that NSSI may function as a maladaptive response for some people to avoid aversive emotions. Indeed, empirical research has supported this notion by suggesting that self‐injurers used more avoidance‐based and emotion‐focused strategies (e.g., Anderson & Crowther, ; Andrews, Martin, Hasking, & Page, ; Borrill, Fox, Flynn, & Roger, ; Cawood & Huprich, ; Chapman et al., ; Evans, Hawton, & Rodham, ; McMahon et al., ), and less problem‐solving and social support seeking strategies (Andover, Pepper, & Gibb, ; Andrews, Martin, Hasking, & Page, ) than noninjurers among both adolescents and adults. For instance, Andrews and colleagues found in two longitudinal studies among adolescents that low problem‐solving coping was associated with the onset of NSSI (Andrews et al., ), and high emotional suppression was associated with the continuation of NSSI (Andrews et al., ).…”