Emotion-oriented coping style predicts self-harm in response to acute psychiatric hospitalization
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Frei, Jacqueline M., Sazhin, Vladimir, Fick, Melissa and Yap, Keong. (2020). Emotion-oriented coping style predicts self-harm in response to acute psychiatric hospitalization. Crisis. 42(3), pp. 232-238. https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000713
Authors | Frei, Jacqueline M., Sazhin, Vladimir, Fick, Melissa and Yap, Keong |
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Abstract | Psychiatric hospitalization can cause significant distress for patients. Research has shown that to cope with the stress, patients sometimes resort to self-harm. Given the paucity of research on self-harm among psychiatric inpatients, a better understanding of transdiagnostic processes as predictors of self-harm during psychiatric hospitalization is needed. The current study examined whether coping styles predicted self-harm after controlling for commonly associated factors, such as age, gender, and borderline personality disorder. Participants were 72 patients (mean age = 39.32 years, SD = 12.29, 64% male) admitted for inpatient treatment at a public psychiatric hospital in Sydney, Australia. Participants completed self-report measures of coping styles and ward-specific coping behaviors, including self-harm, in relation to coping with the stress of acute hospitalization. Results showed that younger age, diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, and higher emotion-oriented coping were associated with self-harm. After controlling for age and borderline personality disorder, higher levels of emotion-oriented coping were found to be a significant predictor of self-harm. Findings were partially consistent with hypotheses; emotion-oriented but not avoidance-oriented coping significantly predicted self-harm. This finding may help to identify and provide psychiatric inpatients who are at risk of self-harm with appropriate therapeutic interventions. |
Keywords | coping; emotion-oriented coping; emotion regulation; self-harm; psychiatric inpatient |
Year | 2020 |
Journal | Crisis |
Journal citation | 42 (3), pp. 232-238 |
Publisher | Hogrefe Publishing GmbH |
ISSN | 0227-5910 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000713 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85092408709 |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 232-238 |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 26 Aug 2020 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 06 Apr 2020 |
Deposited | 05 Aug 2021 |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/8w736/emotion-oriented-coping-style-predicts-self-harm-in-response-to-acute-psychiatric-hospitalization
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