[Symptom specificity of adolescents with self-injurious behavior].
As an introductory part of the paper, authors give a short overview of existing results in the literature related to self-injurious behaviour and adolescents' deliberate self-harm. In their own random sample study, authors organized a self-report screen (provincial town, 3 educational facilities, 470 pupils aged between 14 and 18 years) by means of the translated version of Ottawa Self Injury Inventory (OSI) used widely in community-based studies in Canada. The Beck Depression Inventory was introduced to measure the key symptoms of depression among youngsters. 26 youngsters were found to have had at least one self-injurious action in their life-time. The authors describe the characteristics of these subjects on the basis of symptom occurrence statistics. Although the depressive symptoms have an expected correlation with the self-injurious ideas, depression does not seem to have the same relationships with the actual self-harm action. The authors attempt to give an explanation of this contradiction.
ELTE Barczi Gusztav Gyogypedagogiai Kar, Gyogypedagogiai-Pszichologiai Intezet, Illyes Sandor Pszichologiai Laboratorium; Ecseri u. 3, Budapest, 1097 Hungary.
János
J
Csorba
Edit Ferencz
EF
Szélesné
Péter
P
Steiner
Lajos
L
Farkas
Agnes
A
Németh
D000293:Adolescent; D003192:Compulsive Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D013315:Stress, Psychological