Personality features of young men with non-suicidal self-harm (cross-sectional study)
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Bokhan NA, Evseev VD, Mandel' AI, et al. [Personality features of young men with non-suicidal self-harm (cross-sectional study)]. Rossiiskii psikhiatricheskii zhurnal [Russian Journal of Psychiatry]. 2022;(4):19-26. Russian
In a single-sample cross-sectional study to identify the relationship of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) with personal characteristics and the level of self-esteem in men of military conscription age in non-clinical population, 507 men of military conscription age (from 18 to 27 years) were examined. In this sample, a high prevalence of NSSI was found – 33.9% of the surveyed young people of military conscription age committed an act of self-harming behavior at least once in their lifetime. At the same time, it was revealed that men of military conscription age with a history of self-harm were most often characterized by introversion, lack of self-control, emotional instability, rigidity, low self-esteem and self-image. It is concluded that the scales of self-harm, personal characteristics and self-esteem (self-image) should be used as an addition to the standard screening methods of examining persons of military conscription age during psychiatric examination.
Keywords non-suicidal self-harm; methods of self-harm; non-clinical population; young age; self-esteem (self-image); personality traits
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