The Best Friend and Friendship Group Influence on Adolescent Nonsuicidal Self-injury

You, Jianing; Lin, Min Pei; Fu, Kei; Leung, Freedom

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“…; Rosen & Walsh ; You et al . ). Self‐harm is associated, although not exclusively, with particular adolescent subgroups, where self‐harm is the norm within the group (Heilbron & Prinstein ).…”

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Self‐harm in young people: Prevalence, associated factors, and help‐seeking in school‐going adolescents

Doyle

Treacy

Sheridan

2015

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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Adolescent self-harm is recognised as a serious public health problem however there is little reliable comparative data on its prevalence or characteristics or on the extent of help-seeking for self-harm. The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence and associated factors of adolescent self-harm in an urban region in Ireland and to investigate help-seeking behaviours for self-harm. This was a cross-sectional study of 856 school-going adolescents employing an anonymous self-report questionnaire. A lifetime history of self-harm was reported by 12.1% of adolescents. Factors independently associated with self-harm included exposure to self-harm of a friend/family member.Professional help-seeking was uncommon prior to (9%) and after (12%) self-harm.Furthermore, only 6.9% of adolescents presented to hospital as a result of their last selfharm act. These findings indicate that self-harm is common in adolescents however seeking professional help is not a common phenomenon and those who present to hospital represent the 'tip of the iceberg' of adolescent self-harm. Identifying the prevalence of self-harm and associated factors in addition to help-seeking behaviours in young people is important to determine the preventative programmes to target 'at-risk' groups. Mental health nurses have an important and increasing role to play in such school-based initiatives.

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Self‐harm in young people: Prevalence, associated factors, and help‐seeking in school‐going adolescents

Doyle

Treacy

Sheridan

2015

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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“…See Table 4 for the fourfactor model and factor loadings. Although empirical evidence has shown peer identification/influence to be salient in adolescent NSSI (Jarvi et al, 2013;Prinstein et al, 2010;You, Lin, Fu, & Leung, 2013) and therefore needs to be taken into account when assessing functions of NSSI, these functions were not commonly reported by adolescents in the current self-report study.…”

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Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Swedish Adolescents : Prevalence, Characteristics, Functions and Associations With Childhood Adversities

Zetterqvist¹

2014

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“…Family communication and functioning and parental distress are identified to be associated closely with offspring's self-injury (7,22,24,25). Peer factors may be very important when it comes to the contagious effect of self-injurious behavior in adolescence (26)(27)(28). Similarly, the effects of media and contagion are ever more important to consider, with the internet playing an increasingly important contemporary role (10,29,30).…”

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Concurrent adversities and deliberate self-harm among indigenous Sami and majority Norwegian adolescents: the Norwegian Arctic Adolescent Health Study

Reigstad

Kvernmo

2017

Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology

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Background: Few studies have investigated proximal relationships between deliberate self-harm (DSH) and concurrent adversities. Objective: We aimed to investigate these relationships in a community population of 4881 indigenous Sami and majority Norwegian adolescents, 15 to 16 years old, and related to ethnicity and gender. Methods: Youth with and without self-reports of DSH last year were compared on 12 concurrent adversities, on scales measuring family and peer functioning, and on sociodemographic conditions. Results: DSH last year was reported by 22.3% of the adolescents, and by more girls (28.8%) than boys (15.9%). All 12 concurrent adversities were related strongly to DSH last year. Deliberate self-harmers reported twice as many concurrent adversities as non-DSHs, and a large effect size (Cohen's d = 0.80) indicated a strong multiple additive relationship, but among DSHs no ethnic or gender differences were found. Multivariately, among Sami youth sexual abuse [odds ratio (OR), 8.4] was strongly related to DSH, whereas among majority Norwegians sexual abuse (OR, 3.9) and violence (OR, 4.5) were identified as the strongest predictors. Similarly, among boys violence from adults (OR, 8.8) was associated most strongly with DSH, whereas among girls sexual abuse (OR, 4.3) was the most robust predictor. DSHs reported more conflicts with parents, less family support and involvement, and more peer problems than non-DSHs, and DHS girls had more difficulties in these relationships than DHS boys. Only small ethnic differences were found. Conclusion: Adolescent DSHs reported twice as many concurrent adversities as non-DSHs, sexual abuse and violence were strongly related to DSH. Ethnic and gender differences in risk factors were found. Clinicians should inquire about traumatic experiences such as sexual and physical abuses, and should have a family, peer, and gender perspective in their work.

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The Best Friend and Friendship Group Influence on Adolescent Nonsuicidal Self-injury

Cited by 62 publications

References 35 publications

Self‐harm in young people: Prevalence, associated factors, and help‐seeking in school‐going adolescents

Self‐harm in young people: Prevalence, associated factors, and help‐seeking in school‐going adolescents

Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Swedish Adolescents : Prevalence, Characteristics, Functions and Associations With Childhood Adversities

Concurrent adversities and deliberate self-harm among indigenous Sami and majority Norwegian adolescents: the Norwegian Arctic Adolescent Health Study

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