ArticleJournal of psychiatric research2022
Anger, impulsivity and wall/object punching in a sample of U.S. veterans with psychiatric disorders.
Article in Journal of psychiatric research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- The Relationship Between Anger and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury: A Meta-Analysis.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2026Pooled it
- Detecting Uncoded Self-Harm in Veterans' Electronic Health Records Using Positive and Unlabeled Learning: Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- PTSD symptoms moderate the effects of interpretation bias modification on hostile interpretation bias and trait anger.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Emotion Dysregulation as a Longitudinal Mediator between Depressive Symptoms and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Adolescents: Insights from a Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Beyond deficits: which executive functions link to which NSSI behaviors? A network analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The association of military sexual assault and nonsuicidal self-injury in U.S. Gulf War-I era veterans.Military psychology : the official journal of the Division of Military Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2024Article
- Experiential Avoidance, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors: A Moderation Analysis in a National Veteran Sample.International journal of cognitive therapy · 2023Article
- Traditional Masculine Gender Role Norms and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Veterans.Psychology of men & masculinity · 2022Article
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Abstract
Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) has been identified as one of the strongest predictors of suicide attempts. Wall/object punching is a particularly prevalent form of NSSI among male veterans that has been linked to both impulsivity and anger. The objective of the present study was to examine the indirect effect of impulsivity on wall/object punching via anger. Participants included 124 veterans (32 identified as women, 92 identified as men) with at least one psychiatric disorder. A third of the sample met criteria for NSSI disorder (33.1%) with nearly a half of the remaining sample endorsing NSSI. Almost half (41.94%) of the sample endorsed wall/object punching. Consistent with our hypothesis, impulsivity was significantly associated with anger, which was, in turn, significantly associated with wall/object punching. Impulsivity was found to be indirectly related to wall/object punching via anger. These findings underscore the significance of assessing and treating anger among veterans engaging in wall/object punching. Improving our knowledge of anger and impulsivity and their relationship with this particularly prevalent form of NSSI among veterans may lead to a better understanding of suicide risk among veterans and inform future treatments.
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