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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.