The functions of deliberate self-injury: a review of the evidence.

By E. Klonsky. Clinical Psychology Review, 2007

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Epidemiology

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Chapter 1. General introduction (2015, neutral): “Patient perspectives on self-harm Studies of patients’ own experiences with self-harm reveal that they have several reasons for harming themselves [5, 19-27]: (1) affect regulation is mentioned most by patients: the self-harm is used to alleviate acute negative affect or affective arousal.”
Understanding Emotion in Adolescents: A Review of Emotional Frequency, Intensity, Instability, and Clarity (2018, background): “Adolescents are more likely to engage in NSSI as emotional intensity and instability increase (Klonsky, 2007; Santangelo et al., 2017), perhaps in an effort to increase positive and decrease negative emotions (Nock & Prinstein, 2004).”
Revisiting the affect regulation model of binge eating: a meta-analysis of studies using ecological momentary assessment. (2011, background): “Affect regulation models have been supported for a variety of clinical presentations, including selfinjury (Klonsky, 2007), alcohol use (Sher & Grekin, 2007), and avoidance in anxiety and depression (Campbell-Sills & Barlow, 2007).”
Peer influence and adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury: A theoretical review of mechanisms and moderators (2008, background): “Research findings support hat this indeed is the most common function endorsed by indiiduals who engage in NSSI (Brown, Comtois, & Linehan, 2002; hapman, Gratz, & Brown, 2006; Klonsky, 2007; Nock & Prinstein, 004, 2005).”
The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale: Factor Structure and Association with Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Adolescent Inpatients (2012, background): “…as several prominent theories which posit that one of the functions of NSSI is as a means of emotion or affect regulation, such as the Experiential Avoidance Model mentioned previously (Chapman et al. 2006), Nock’s (2010) intrapersonal model, and general affect-regulation models (Klonsky 2007).”
Self-injury: a research review for the practitioner. (2007, background): “The heightened experience of negative emotions may be the primary reason for self-injury, as self-injury may temporarily alleviate emotional distress (Klonsky, 2007; see below for a more detailed review of the functions of self-injury).”
Examining the link between nonsuicidal self-injury and suicidal behavior: a review of the literature and an integrated model. (2012, background): “Indeed, two commonly endorsed motivations for engaging in NSSI are antidissociation (i.e., to reduce feelings of numbness) and feeling generation (i.e., to feel something, even if it is pain) (Klonsky, 2007; Klonsky & Glenn, 2009; Nock & Prinstein, 2004).”
Bullying and Victimization, Depressive Mood, and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Parental Support (2015, background): “Several studies have indeed shown the affect-regulation function of NSSI (e.g., decreasing negative emotions) as well as the self-punishment function (driven by anger) of these behaviors (e.g., Claes et al. 2010; Klonsky 2007, 2009).”
Identifying clinically distinct subgroups of self-injurers among young adults: a latent class analysis. (2008, background): “A recent empirical review has noted that the field lacks a comprehensive measure of NSSI functions (Klonsky, 2007).”
Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Within Offender Populations: A Systematic Review (2012, background): “Taken together, these studies suggest that NSSI may primarily serve to relieve emotional distress, particularly anger, in both criminal justice and community contexts (Klonsky, 2007).”
Comparison of non-suicidal self-injurious behavior and suicide attempts in patients admitted to a psychiatric crisis unit (2010, result): “…anger and self-criticism found in NSSI patients (Claes, Vandereycken, & Vertommen, 2003; Claes et al., 2004; Glassman, Weierich, Hooley, Deliberto, & Nock, 2007; Klonsky, 2007), and is consistent with emotion regulation models of NSSI (Chapman, Gratz, & Brown, 2006; Muehlenkamp et al., 2009).”
Social context during non-suicidal self-injury indicates suicide risk (2009, background): “Klonsky / Personality and Individual Differences 46 (2009) 25–29”
International prevalence of adolescent non-suicidal self-injury and deliberate self-harm (2012, background): “,[4]] and is significantly associated with increased suicidality [5-7].”
The relationship between nonsuicidal self-injury and attempted suicide: converging evidence from four samples. (2013, background): “For example, the behaviors differ in terms prevalence (NSSI is more prevalent), frequency (NSSI is often performed dozens or hundreds of times whereas suicide attempts are typically performed once or a few times), methods (cutting and burning are more characteristic of NSSI whereas self-poisoning is”
A meta-analysis of the prevalence of different functions of non-suicidal self-injury. (2018, methodology): “Self-punishment was included as a separate function to emotion-regulation that has also been repeatedly identi ﬁ ed in past research (Edmondson et al., 2016; Klonsky, 2007b).”