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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Compr Psychiatry. 2015 Nov 6;65:79–87. doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2015.10.008

Table 4.

Rumination as a Moderator of the Relationship between Scar Presence and Scar Frequency and Suicidal Ideation

Interaction between Rumination and Scar Presence Predicting SI
Predictor Effect SE t
T1 BDI 0.07 0.02 4.51***
Method (Cutting) −0.53 0.55 −0.97
NSSI Med Sev −0.16 0.89 −0.18
NSSI Frequency 0.01 0.14 0.07
Suicide Attempt 0.98 0.61 1.60
Brooding 0.03 0.04 0.67
NSSI Scar Presence 1.05 0.59 1.78
Brooding x Scar Presence 0.66 0.08 7.45***
ΔR2 = .13, F = 55.57, p < .001
Interaction between Rumination and Scar Frequency Predicting SI
Predictor Effect SE t
T1 BDI 0.07 0.01 4.93***
Method (Cutting) 0.08 0.50 0.16
NSSI Med Sev −2.40 0.91 −2.63**
NSSI Frequency −0.13 0.15 −0.87
Suicide Attempt 0.93 0.61 1.53
Brooding 0.14 0.04 3.54***
NSSI Scar Frequency 0.51 0.25 2.07*
Brooding x Scar Frequency 0.29 0.04 8.37***
ΔR2 = .15, F =69.97, p < .001
*

p < .05,

**

p < .01,

***

p < .001.

Note. BDI = Beck Depression Inventory; NSSI = Non suicidal self-injury; NSSI Med Sev = Non-suicidal self-injury medical lethality. Linear regressions were conducted to examine these hypotheses; thus, the full sample (N = 231) was included in these analyses.