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ERIC Number: EJ871407
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Jan
Pages: 12
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0167
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Developing a Screening Instrument and At-Risk Profile for Nonsuicidal Self-Injurious Behavior in College Women and Men
Cheng, Hsiu-Lan; Mallinckrodt, Brent; Soet, Johanna; Sevig, Todd
Journal of Counseling Psychology, v57 n1 p128-139 Jan 2010
Archival data (N = 1,048 women, 1,136 men) from a mental health survey of college students were used to investigate incidence of nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI), including cutting. Significant levels (defined as 4-5 lifetime incidents) were found in 9.3% of women and 5.3% of men. The Counseling Center Assessment for Psychological Symptoms (a global symptom inventory) and an assessment of trauma had been field tested with this sample. We randomly partitioned half of these data into a holdout sample and used the remainder to develop an NSSI screening inventory that included (a) 5 women's screening items, including 1 item to assess trauma experienced; (b) 11 men's screening items; and (c) 12 items common to men and women, including depression, dissociation, anger, unwanted thoughts, nightmares or flashbacks, and having witnessed trauma. Logistic regression and receiver-operating characteristic curve analysis suggested the inventory significantly discriminated NSSI men and women in the holdout sample, p less than 0.001. Cutoff scores were identified to correctly classify about 48% of the true positive male and female NSSI cases, with false positive rates of 13.2% and 8.4% for women and men, respectively. (Contains 5 tables.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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