title: Self-harm and conventional gender roles in women.
abstract: A total of thirty-two women admitted to a general hospital for medical treatment after self-harming completed measures of conventional positive and negative masculinity and femininity. Comparisons were made with two control groups with no self-harm history; 33 women receiving psychiatric outpatient treatment and a nonclinical sample of 206 women. Multinomial logistic regression analyses showed that those with lower scores on Instrumentality and Unmitigated Agency (positive and negative masculinity) and higher scores on Insecurity (negative femininity) had greater odds of self-harming. Relationships were weaker after accounting for generalized self-efficacy. Results are discussed in relation to previous findings and suggestions for prevention are made.
authors.affiliation: Division of Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway. Melanie.Straiton@fhi.no
authors.forename: Melanie L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Straiton
authors.forename: Heidi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hjelmeland
authors.forename: Tine K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Grimholt
authors.forename: Gudrun
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dieserud
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D005260:Female; D057227:Femininity; D005783:Gender Identity; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D057228:Masculinity; D008875:Middle Aged; D009664:Norway; D016017:Odds Ratio; D012649:Self Concept; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult