Predictors for DSM-5 nonsuicidal self-injury in female adolescent inpatients: The role of childhood maltreatment, alexithymia, and dissociation

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 239, Issue , 2016, Pages 346-352

  Lüdtke, Janine ^a   In Albon, Tina ^b   Michel, Chantal ^c   Schmid, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b University of Koblenz   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Childhood maltreatment; Dissociation; Emotion regulation; Nonsuicidal self injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; CHILD ABUSE; CHILDHOOD TRAUMA QUESTIONNAIRE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DSM-5; EMOTIONAL ABUSE; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISSOCIATION; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL ABUSE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; CHILD ABUSE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; SELF REPORT; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84962861479     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2016.02.026     Document Type: Article

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