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- Title
Examining Sexual Assault Victimization and Loneliness as Risk Factors Associated With Nonlethal Self-Harm Behaviors in Female College Students: Is It Important to Control for Concomitant Suicidal Behaviors (and Vice Versa)?
- Authors
Chang, Edward C.; Lee, Jerin; Wright, Kaitlin M.; Najarian, Alexandria S.-M.; Yu, Tina; Chang, Olivia D.; Hirsch, Jameson K.
- Abstract
The present study examined sexual assault victimization and loneliness as predictors of self-harm behaviors in a sample of 224 female college students. Results from conducting regression analysis indicated that both sexual assault victimization and loneliness were unique and significant predictors of self-harm behaviors. This pattern remained even after controlling for concomitant suicidal behaviors. Interestingly, in a post hoc analysis predicting suicidal behaviors, it was found that loneliness, but not sexual assault victimization, was the only unique and significant predictor after controlling for self-harm behaviors. Some implications of the present findings for understanding self-harm behaviors in female college students and the importance of controlling for suicidal behaviors in studies of self-harm behaviors (and vice versa) are discussed.
- Subjects
RISK factors of self-injurious behavior; PSYCHOLOGY of college students; LONELINESS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION analysis; SEX crimes; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; PSYCHOLOGY of crime victims; PSYCHOLOGY of women; DATA analysis; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; UCLA Loneliness Scale
- Publication
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2019, Vol 34, Issue 21/22, p4443
- ISSN
0886-2605
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0886260516675920