Identifying the risk of deliberate self-harm among young prisoners by means of coping typologies.
Self-harming behavior during incarceration has been a topic of increasing attention in recent years. Some authors attribute these episodes to the high level of stress that imprisonment generates coupled with a low quality of coping strategies employed by inmates. The main aim of this study was to identify, by means of coping typologies, prisoners at higher risk of self-harming behavior. The results highlighted the fact that coping typologies permitted the classification of inmates into four groups and the identification of those at lower and higher risk of self-harming. The group at greater risk was the one that used more avoidance and less approach coping.
Kirchner
Teresa
T
Department of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatment, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Spain. tkirchner@ub.edu
Forns
Maria
M
Mohíno
Susana
S
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological / Q000145:classification*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011329:Prisoners / Q000145:classification / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D012307:Risk Factors; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology