The environmental, interpersonal, and affective context of nonsuicidal self-injury urges in daily life.

ABSTRACT: Urges for nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) are important precursors to NSSI acts and may serve as a point of intervention. A close understanding of the phenomenology of NSSI urges and the contexts in which they occur is therefore warranted. We used ambulatory assessment to examine the environmental, interpersonal, and affective contexts of NSSI urges. We recruited 56 participants with borderline personality disorder who reported on urges and contexts for 21 days with six random daily prompts, resulting in 5,750 completed assessments. Twenty-two participants reported 160 NSSI urges. We provide extensive descriptive results characterizing the interaction partners, activities, and events participants reported in association with NSSI urges. Results from a logistic multilevel model using the ful

SUBMITTER: Hepp J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7946409 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature