ArticleSuicide & life-threatening behavior2022
Affective states and nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI): Results from an ecological momentary assessment study of veterans with NSSI disorder.
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- The Relationship Between Anger and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury: A Meta-Analysis.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2026Pooled it
- A meta-analysis on the affect regulation function of real-time self-injurious thoughts and behaviours.Nature human behaviour · 2022Pooled it
- Anger predicts suicidal ideation in a sample of veterans with nonsuicidal self-injury: An ecological momentary assessment study.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Examining associations between negative affect arousal dimensions and self-injurious thoughts: Findings from two real-time monitoring studies with psychiatrically acute adolescents.Psychiatry research · 2025Article
- Nonsuicidal self-injury methods among U.S. Veterans: Latent class analysis and associations with psychosocial outcomes.Psychiatry research · 2023Article
- Examining the daily relationship between guilt, shame, and substance use among veterans with psychiatric disorders.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2023Article
- Interpersonal stress and nonsuicidal self-injury disorder in veterans: An ecological momentary assessment study.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2023Article
- Measuring affect in daily life: A multilevel psychometric evaluation of the PANAS-X across four ecological momentary assessment samples.Psychological assessment · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe affective states most strongly associated with nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) remain poorly understood, particularly among veterans. This study used ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to examine relationships between affect ratings and NSSI urges and behaviors among veterans with NSSI disorder.
methodsParticipants (N = 40) completed EMA entries via mobile phone for 28 days (3722 total entries). Entries included intensity ratings for five basic affective states, as well as NSSI urges and behaviors, during the past 4 hours.
resultsBivariate analyses indicated that each affect variable was significantly associated with both NSSI urges and behaviors. Angry/hostile and sad were most strongly associated with both NSSI urges and behaviors. A multivariate regression revealed that angry/hostile, disgusted with self, and happy (inversely related) were contemporaneously (within the same period) associated with NSSI behaviors, whereas all five basic affective states were contemporaneously associated with NSSI urges. In a lagged model, angry/hostile and sad were associated with subsequent NSSI urges but not behaviors.
conclusionsFindings highlight the relevance of particular affective states to NSSI and the potential utility of targeting anger in treatments for NSSI among veterans. There is a need for future EMA research study to further investigate temporal relationships between these variables.
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