Borderline Personality Traits, Rumination, and Self-Injurious Behavior: An Empirical Test of the Emotional Cascades Model in Adult Male Offenders

Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 398-417

  Gardner, Kathryn Jane ^a   Dodsworth, Jo ^b   Selby, Edward A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b HMP Risley   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD); emotional cascades; male offenders; non suicidal self injury (NSSI); rumination; suicidal behavior; suicidality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGER RUMINATION SCALE; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; BORDERLINE STATE; BROODING SUBSCALE; COGNITIVE EMOTION REGULATION QUESTIONNAIRE; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DSM-IV; EMOTIONALITY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LIKERT SCALE; MALE; OFFENDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RUMINATION; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE BEHAVIOR QUESTIONNAIRE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

EID: 84911982309     PISSN: 15228932     EISSN: 15229092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15228932.2014.962379     Document Type: Article

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