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Table 2 Correlations of self-reported experience of childhood adversities and symptoms of traumatic stress with automatic and social functions of NSSI

From: A cross-sectional study of adolescent non-suicidal self-injury: support for a specific distress-function relationship

Variables Automatic functions Social functions
 Frequency of NSSI .49*** .31***
 Gender .39*** .18***
 Suicide attempt .47*** .32***
Adverse Childhood Circumstances (ACC) during upbringing
 Bullied .29*** .22***
 Prolonged illness or handicap .12*** .12***
 Parental chronic adversity† .20*** .11**
 Emotional abuse .41*** .26***
Interpersonal Negative Events (IPE)   
 Physical abuse by adult in family .29*** .28***
 Sexual abuse by adult in family or other .35*** .25***
Symptoms of traumatic stress   
 Depression .73*** .43***
 Anxiety .58*** .42***
 Anger .44*** .34***
 Posttraumatic stress .62*** .42***
 Dissociation .62*** .43***
  1. Note. NSSI = non-suicidal self-injury, n = 808 in the model of social functions, due to listwise deletion of missing data being default option in the heteroscedasticity-consistent standard error (HCSE) macro [53], † including alcohol abuse, mental health problems, in jail, handicap, separated from parent(s), divorce, quarreling during divorce, **p <.01, ***p <.001.
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

ISSN: 1753-2000