Using the experiential avoidance model of non-suicidal self-injury: Understanding who stops and who continues

Archives of Suicide Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 124-134

  Anderson, Nicholas L ^a   Crowther, Janis H ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

emotion dysregulation; experiential avoidance; non suicidal self injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; STUDENT;

ADULT; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; STUDENTS;

EID: 84860811603     PISSN: 13811118     EISSN: 15436136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13811118.2012.667329     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Bagby, R. M., Parker, J. D. A., & Taylor, G. J. (1994). The twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale: I. Item selection and cross-validation of the factor structure. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 38 (1), 23-32.
2. Boelen, P. A., & Reijntjes, A. (2008). Measuring experiential avoidance: Reliability and validity of the Dutch 9-item acceptance and action questionnaire (AAQ). Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 30, 241-251.
3. Briere, J., & Gil, E. (1998). Self-mutilation in clinical and general population samples: Prevalence, correlates, and functions. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 68, 609-620.
4. Brown, S. A., Williams, K., & Collins, A. (2007). Past and recent deliberate self-harm: Emotion and coping strategy differences. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 63 (9), 791-803.
5. Chapman, A. L., Gratz, K. L., & Brown, M. Z. (2006). Solving the puzzle of deliberate self-harm: The experiential avoidance model. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44, 371-394.
6. Darche, M. A. (1990). Psychological factors differentiating self-mutilating and non-self-mutilating adolescent inpatient females. Psychiatric Hospital, 21, 31-35.
7. Deliberto, T. L., & Nock, M. K. (2008). An exploratory study of correlates, onset, and offset of non-suicidal self-injury. Archives of Suicide Research, 12, 219-231.
8. DiClemente, R. J., Ponton, L. E., & Hartley, D. (1991). Prevalence and correlates of cutting behavior: Risk for HIV transmission. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 30, 735-739.
9. Duffy, D. F. (2006). Self-injury. Psychiatry, 5, 263-265.
10. Favazza, A. R. (1992). Repetitive self-mutilation. Psychiatric Annals, 22, 60-63.
11. Favazza, A. R. (1998). The coming of age of self-mutilation. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 186, 259-268.
12. Favazza, A. R., & Conterio, K. (1988). The plight of chronic self-mutilators. Community Mental Health Journal, 24, 22-30.
13. Glenn, C. R., & Klonsky, E. D. (2010). A multimethod analysis of impulsivity in nonsuicidal self-injury. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 1, 67-75.
14. Gratz, K. L. (2001). Measurement of deliberate self-harm: Preliminary data on the deliberate self-harm inventory. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 23, 253-263.
15. Gratz, K. L. (2003). Risk factors for and functions of deliberate self-harm: An empirical and conceptual review. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 10, 192-205.
16. Gratz, K. L. (2006). Risk factors for deliberate self-harm among female college students: The role and interaction of childhood maltreatment, emotional inexpressivity, and affect intenstity/reactivity. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 76, 238-250.
17. Gratz, K. L. (2007). Targeting emotion dysregulation in the treatment of self-injury. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 63, 1091-1103.
18. Gratz, K. L., & Chapman, A. L. (2007). The role of emotional responding and childhood maltreatment in the development and maintenance of deliberate self-harm among male undergraduates. Psychology of Men & Masculinity, 8, 1-14.
19. Gratz, K. L., & Roemer, L. (2004). Multidimensional assessment of emotion regulation and dysregulation: Development, factor structure, and initial validation of the difficulties in emotion regulation scale. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 26, 41-54.
20. Guerry, J. D., & Prinstein, M. J. (2010). Longitudinal prediction of adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury: Examination of a cognitive vulnerability-stress model. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 39, 77-89.
21. Haines, J., Williams, C. L., Brain, K. L., & Wilson, G. V. (1995). The psychopathology of self-mutilation. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 104, 471-489.
22. Hasking, P., Momeni, R., Swannell, S., & Chia, S. (2008). The nature and extent of non-suicidal self-injury in a non-clinical sample of young adults. Archives of Suicide Research, 12, 208-218.
23. Hayes, S. C., Strosahl, K., Wilson, K. G., Bissett, R. T., Pistorello, J., Toarmino, D., McCurry, S. M. (2004). Measuring experiential avoidance: A preliminary test of a working model. The Psychological Record, 54, 553-578.
24. Jacobson, C. M., & Gould, M. (2007). The epidemiology and phenomenology of non-suicidal self-injurious behavior among adolescents: A critical review of the literature. Archives of Suicide Research, 11, 129-147.
25. Klonsky, E. D. (2007). The functions of deliberate self-injury: A review of the evidence. Clinical Psychology Review, 27, 226-239.
26. Lloyd-Richardson, E. E. (2008). Adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury: Who is doing it and why? Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 29, 216-218.
27. Lloyd-Richardson, E. E., Perrine, N., Dierker, L., & Kelley, M. L. (2007). Characteristic and functions on non-suicidal self-injury in a community sample of adolescents. Psychological Medicine, 37, 1183-1192.
28. Muehlenkamp, J. J., & Gutierrez, P. M. (2004). An investigation of differences between self-injurious behavior and suicide attempts in a sample of adolescents. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 34, 12-23.
29. Muehlenkamp, J. J., & Gutierrez, P. M. (2007). Risk for suicide attempts among adolescents who engage in non-suicidal self-injury. Archives of Suicide Research, 11, 69-82.
30. Muris, P., Merckelbach, H., & Horselenberg, R. (1996). Individual differences in thought suppression. The White Bear Suppression Inventory: Factor structure, reliability, validity and correlates. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 34 (5-6), 501-513.
31. Nock, M. K. (2010). Self-injury. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 6, 339-363.
32. Nock, M. K., Joiner, T. E., Gordon, K. H., Lloyd-Richardson, E., & Prinstein, M. J. (2006). Non-suicidal self-injury among adolescents: Diagnostic correlates and relation to suicide attempts. Psychiatry Research, 144, 65-72.
33. Nock, M. K., & Prinstein, M. J. (2004). A functional approach to the assessment of self-mutilative behavior. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 72, 885-890.
34. Pattison, E. M., & Kahan, J. (1983). The deliberate self-harm syndrome. American Journal of Psychiatry, 140, 867-872.
35. Ross, S., & Heath, N. (2002). A study of the frequency of self-mutilation in a community sample of adolescents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 31, 67-77.
36. Sinclair, J., & Green, J. (2005). Understanding resolution of deliberate self harm: Qualitative interview study of patients' experiences. British Medical Journal, 330, 1112.
37. Watson, D., & Clark, L. A. (1991). The Mood and Anxiety Symptom Questionnaire. Unpublished manuscript, University of Iowa, Department of Psychology, Iowa City, IA.
38. Watson, D., Clark, L. A., Weber, K., Assenheimer, J. S., Strauss, M. E., & McCormick, R. A. (1995). Testing a tripartite model: II. Exploring the symptom structure of anxiety and depression in student, adult, and patient samples. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 104 (1), 15-25.
39. Wegner, D. M., & Zanakos, S. (1994). Chronic thought suppression. Journal of Personality, 62 (4), 615-640.
40. Whitlock, J., Eckenrode, J., & Silverman, D. (2006). Self-injurious behavior in a college population. Pediatrics, 117, 1939-1948.
41. Wilcox, R. R. (1987). New statistical procedures for the social sciences. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
42. Young, R., van Beinum, M., Sweeting, H., & West, P. (2007). Young people who self-harm. British Journal of Psychiatry, 191, 44-49.