title: A cognitive-emotional model of NSSI: using emotion regulation and cognitive processes to explain why people self-injure.
abstract: Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a complex behaviour, routinely engaged for emotion regulatory purposes. As such, a number of theoretical accounts regarding the aetiology and maintenance of NSSI are grounded in models of emotion regulation; the role that cognition plays in the behaviour is less well known. In this paper, we summarise four models of emotion regulation that have repeatedly been related to NSSI and identify the core components across them. We then draw on social cognitive theory to unite models of cognition and models of emotion in developing a new cognitive-emotional model of NSSI. Our model articulates how emotion regulation and cognition can work in concert to govern NSSI, and offers several new research questions that can be addressed within this framework.
authors.affiliation: a School of Psychology and Speech Pathology , Curtin University , Perth , Australia.
authors.forename: Penelope
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hasking
authors.affiliation: b College of Human Ecology , Cornell University , New York , NY , USA.
authors.forename: Janis
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Whitlock
authors.affiliation: c School of Psychological Sciences , Monash University , Melbourne , Australia.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Voon
authors.affiliation: a School of Psychology and Speech Pathology , Curtin University , Perth , Australia.
authors.forename: Alyssa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rose
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: NSSI; emotion regulation; expectancies; self-efficacy; social cognition