Personality styles and self-harm in adolescents of the city of Arequipa

Autor: Marilia Gallegos-Santos, Yesenia Casapia Guzman, Renzo Rivera Calcina
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Interacciones: Revista de Avances en Psicología, Vol 4, Iss 2, Pp 143-151 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2411-5940
2413-4465
DOI: 10.24016/2018.v4n2.106
Popis: The objective of this research was to determine the relationship between personality styles and self-injury. The sample was of 997 students between 13 and 18 years old (M=15.24 years), who attended between third and fifth of secondary school in public and private schools of the city of Arequipa. The research design was of the transversal, descriptive - correlational type. The Millon Adolescent Personality Inventory (MAPI), the Sub-Scale of Self-injury and Self-injury Thoughts (SIBTI), and a sociodemographic survey were used. The results indicated that there is a prevalence of 34.9% in relation to self-injurious thoughts, while 27.9% of those evaluated have self-harmed, with the average age of onset of self-injury being 12.61 years. The main triggers are negative mood (48.2%) and family problems (39.9%). Likewise, we found that sensitive personality styles (r = .293; p
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