Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

Table 1 Adolescent and maternal expressed emotion levels in the three participant groups (NSSI, CC, NC) assessed with the five-minute speech sample (FMSS)

From: A comparison of expressed emotion between mothers and their adolescent daughters with and without a history of nonsuicidal self-injury

Variable	Adolescents						χ²	df	Cramer’s V	Mothers
	NSSI (n = 21)		CC (n = 17)		NC (n = 32)					NSSI (n = 10)		CC (n = 7)		NC (n = 7)
	n	%	n	%	n	%				n	%	n	%	n	%
EE status							18.03**	2	0.52
Low EE	8	38.1	10	58.8	28	87.5				5	50	5	71.4	7	100
High EE	13	61.9	7	41.2	2	6.3				5	50	2	28.6	0	0
HEE subtype							1.52	4	0.19
Criticism	11	84.6	7	100	2	100				4	80	2	100	0	0
EOI	1	7.7	0	0	0	0				0	0	0	0	0	0
Criticism & EOI	1	7.7	0	0	0	0				1	20	0	0	0	0

CC clinical control; EE expressed emotion; HEE high expressed emotion; EOI emotional overinvolvement; NC nonclinical control; NSSI adolescents who engage in nonsuicidal self-injury
^**p < 0.01

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