Self-Harm, Affective Traits, and Psychosocial Functioning in Adults With Depressive and Bipolar Disorders
In: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Jg. 205 (2017-11-01), Heft 11
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Self-harm refers to the purposeful destruction of bodily tissue without suicidal intention and for purposes that are not socially sanctioned. Little is known about the associations between a history of self-harm, mood symptoms, and functioning in adults with different types of mood disorders. Lifetime histories of self-harm, current mood symptoms, global functioning, and affective traits were collected on 142 adults with mood disorders. The prevalence of lifetime self-harm was higher in patients with bipolar disorder compared with patients with a unipolar depressive disorder. Self-harm was also more strongly linked to impulsivity in individuals with bipolar disorder compared with unipolar depressive disorder. Across both diagnoses, histories of self-harm were related to lower levels of current global functioning, more severe depressive symptoms, and high self-reported emotional dysregulation and neuroticism. Findings indicate that self-harm is a potent prognostic variable for symptoms, global functioning, and personality functioning in individuals with mood disorders.
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Self-Harm, Affective Traits, and Psychosocial Functioning in Adults With Depressive and Bipolar Disorders
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Weintraub, Marc J ; Van de Loo, Margaret M ; Gitlin, Michael J ; Miklowitz, David J |
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Zeitschrift: | The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Jg. 205 (2017-11-01), Heft 11 |
Veröffentlichung: | eScholarship, University of California, 2017 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
Umfang: | 896 - 899 |
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