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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 30.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatry Res. 2014 Jun 10;219(2):305–310. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.06.001

Table 3.

NSSI Characteristics by NSSI Diagnostic Status

NSSI History,
Not Disorder
(n = 111)
NSSI Disorder

(n = 14)
t2 df res/Φ/V
Age of NSSI onset 15.60 (5.65) 14.00 (5.63) −1.00 121 0.09
Number of days past year 6.38 (35.89) 86.64 (134.47) 5.11 *** 123 0.42
Lifetime NSSI frequency 712.65 (5962.38) 359.50 (609.36) −0.22 114 0.02
Interfere with functioning (% Yes) 6.3 28.6 8.17* 2 0.26
Want to stop (% Yes) 57.7 85.7 4.15 2 0.18
FASM
  Autonomic Negative 1.81 (1.88) 3.79 (1.67) 3.73*** 122 0.32
  Autonomic Positive 2.41 (2.51) 5.00 (2.00) 3.72*** 121 0.32
  Social Negative 0.96 (1.91) 0.64 (1.01) −0.60 123 0.05
  Social Positive 4.30 (7.59) 3.15 (2.78) −0.54 116 0.05
NSSI Methods
  Number of NSSI Methods 2.10 (1.54) 2.75 (1.42) 1.39 115 0.13
  % Cut 56.0 78.6 2.61 1 0.15
  % Carve 25.2 16.7 0.43 1 0.06
  % Hit 43.0 50.0 0.22 1 0.04
  % Interfere with wound healing 19.6 25.0 0.19 1 0.04
  % Burn 15.1 33.3 2.55 1 0.15
  % Insert objects under skin 3.7 0.0 0.46 1 0.06
  % Bite 13.1 33.3 3.45 1 0.17
  % Skin pick 14.0 16.7 0.06 1 0.02
  % Scratch 18.9 25.0 0.26 1 0.05

Note. Unless otherwise specified, values in cells represent means, and values in parentheses represent standard deviations. NSSI = Non-suicidal self-injury. FASM = Functional Assessment of Self-Mutilation.

*

p < 0.05,

**

p < 0.01,

***

p < 0.01,