Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
Non-suicidal self-injury, or self-mutilation is often referred to as an act of deliberately damaging oneself physically without any intention to commit suicide (Weierich, 2008). A history of childhood trauma may result in posttraumatic stress disorder among the adult victims and may eventually lead to non-suicidal self-harm (Sansone et al., 2009). In the present review, the relevant factors to non-suicidal self-harm such as childhood sexual abuse, physical abuse and witnessing domestic violence are examined. It is hypothesized that the factors develop a strong relationship with the self-injurious behavior of adults. The following three studies aim to identify and prove the hypothesis.
The connection between childhood sexual offensive acts …show more content…
As reported by Santa (2010), the method was designed with a sample size 83 adult clients aged from 18 to 25 from the mental health service in an inner-city teaching hospital whom had been engaged in self-insulting behavior. Every participant was required to complete the Childhood Physical Abuse Scale of Briere (2003), where the act of physical abuse is officially considered as punching or burning a child less than 18 resulting in distinguishable physical injury. In order to analyze the data, the researcher examined that among the sample, the number of abused clients in the subsample was 64 while the rest 19 participants were regarded as non abused. Although the gender is well-portioned dispersed, females were reported to have a greater possibility to be abused than males with a probability of 0.03. However, self-harmful behaviors without suicide were evenly distributed (Briere & Elliott, 2003). The study resulted in the fact that only 38% out of the 83 people applied non-suicidal self-destruction while the majority, 60% of the sample, reported to have acts including suicide (Briere & Elliott, 2003). Thus, the result had disproved the hypothesis by clearly indicating that regardless of childhood physical abuse records, a majority of the sample had intensions of committing suicide instead of non-suicidal self-destruction (Briere & Elliott,
The connection between childhood sexual offensive acts …show more content…
As reported by Santa (2010), the method was designed with a sample size 83 adult clients aged from 18 to 25 from the mental health service in an inner-city teaching hospital whom had been engaged in self-insulting behavior. Every participant was required to complete the Childhood Physical Abuse Scale of Briere (2003), where the act of physical abuse is officially considered as punching or burning a child less than 18 resulting in distinguishable physical injury. In order to analyze the data, the researcher examined that among the sample, the number of abused clients in the subsample was 64 while the rest 19 participants were regarded as non abused. Although the gender is well-portioned dispersed, females were reported to have a greater possibility to be abused than males with a probability of 0.03. However, self-harmful behaviors without suicide were evenly distributed (Briere & Elliott, 2003). The study resulted in the fact that only 38% out of the 83 people applied non-suicidal self-destruction while the majority, 60% of the sample, reported to have acts including suicide (Briere & Elliott, 2003). Thus, the result had disproved the hypothesis by clearly indicating that regardless of childhood physical abuse records, a majority of the sample had intensions of committing suicide instead of non-suicidal self-destruction (Briere & Elliott,