Self-image in adolescents with deliberate self-harm behavior

• This study tested the hypothesis of a positive relation between deliberate self-harm and poor self-image in adolescents and investigated the relation between substance abuse (drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol) and deliberate self-harm. One-hundred thirteen highschool students, aged predominantly 16–18 years, responded to the 16-item version of the Deliberate Self-Harm Inventory, the 36-item Structural Analysis of Social Behavior, and single questions about use of drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol. The results showed a positiverelation between deliberate self-harm and poor self-image, and between deliberate self-harm and cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption.These results imply that poor self-image and a large extent of substance use may be markers for identifying adolescents at risk for deliberate self-harm.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Psykologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Psychology (hsv//eng)

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alcohol; interpersonal; self-injury; smoking; youth

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