ArticleFrontiers in psychology2023
Personality characteristics, defense styles, borderline symptoms, and non-suicidal self-injury in first-episode major depressive disorder.
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- The Role of Defense Mechanisms in Self-Injurious Behaviors: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical psychology · 2026Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of influencing factors of non-suicidal self-injury behavior in adolescents with depression.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
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- Biological rhythm and depression severity mediate the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and non-suicidal self-injury among adolescents with depressive disorder.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- A novel approach to exploring youth non-suicidal self-injury heterogeneity: individual differential psychopathology network analysis.Annals of general psychiatry · 2025Article
- Non-suicidal self-injury behaviours among adolescents in Beijing: protocol for an epidemiological and qualitative exploration.BMJ open · 2025Article
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- Effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Combined with Sertraline on Cognitive Level, Inflammatory Response and Neurological Function in Depressive Disorder Patients with Non-suicidal Self-injury Behavior.Actas espanolas de psiquiatria · 2024Article
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- Social Introversion Personality Trait as Predictor of Internalizing Symptoms in Female Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Immature defense mechanisms mediate the relationship between negative life events and depressive symptoms.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Functions of nonsuicidal self-injurious behavior in Russian patients with suicidal ideation.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- The relationship between depressive mood and non-suicidal self-injury among secondary vocational school students: the moderating role of borderline personality disorder tendencies.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background: Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is commonly seen in adolescents with depression and is a high-risk factor leading to suicide. The psychological mechanisms underlying depression with NSSI are still unclear. The purpose of this study was to explore the differences in personality traits, defensive styles, and borderline symptoms among first-episode youth patients with depression and self-injury compared with patients with depression without self-injury and healthy populations. Methods: The current study recruited 188 participants, including 64 patients with depression and NSSI, 60 patients with depression without NSSI, and 64 healthy control subjects. Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, the Defense Style Questionnaire, the short version of the Borderline Symptom List, the Beck Depression Inventory, and the Ottawa Self-Injury Inventory were used to assess all participants. Results: Patients with depression and NSSI showed more psychoticism than patients with depression without NSSI and healthy control subjects. Patients with depression and NSSI presented more intermediate defense styles than healthy control subjects. In the patients with depression and NSSI group, the frequency of self-injury in the last week was negatively correlated with mature defense styles and positively correlated with depressive symptoms and borderline symptoms. Further regression analysis showed that EPQ-psychoticism and depressive symptoms were independent risk factors for NSSI in patients with depression. Conclusion: This study found that patients with depression and self-injury presented more neuroticism, introversion, EPQ-psychoticism, immature defenses, intermediate defenses, and borderline symptoms. Self-injury frequency was negatively correlated with mature defense styles and positively correlated with depressive symptoms and borderline symptoms. EPQ-Psychoticism and depressive symptoms are risk factors for predicting non-suicidal self-injury in patients with depression.
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