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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Appl Behav Anal. 2019 Nov 25;53(2):1042–1057. doi: 10.1002/jaba.664

Table 2.

Self-injury Topographies, Levels of Behavior in Control and Test Condition, Levels of Self-Restraint, Group and Function

Part. Topographies Play
Rate
Test
Rate
Mean
Percent
Self-Restraint
Group Other Functions*
1 1) Head hitting
2) Body hitting
3) Head banging
33.5 32.2 n/a ASIB-2 None
2 1) Head banging
2) Skin biting
3) Head hitting
3.9 4.5 n/a ASIB-2 None
3 1) Head/Neck hitting
2) Banging body on surfaces
3) Stomping on the surfaces
4) Skin biting
5) Body hitting
6) Skin scratching
7) Skin pinching
4.2 1.6 n/a ASIB-2 None
4 1) Skin picking
2) Skin scratching
3) Skin pinching
4) Rubbing injured areas
1.3 1.2 n/a ASIB-2 None
5 1) Skin picking
2) Skin scratching
2.8 2.5 n/a ASIB-2 None
6 1) Head hitting
2) Head kneeing
7.0 9.5 n/a ASIB-2 A
7 1) Body hitting
2) Body kicking
0.0 1.9 63.3 ASIB-3 None
8 1) Head hitting
2) Hitting chin with shoulder
3) Body hitting
4) Banging body on surfaces
4.1 2.3 82.5 ASIB-3 None
9 1) Head hitting
2) Knee/Shoulder heading
3.4 5.1 96.7 ASIB-3 None
10 1) Body hitting
2) Head hitting
3) Head banging
4) Pulling hair
5) Skin picking
6) Skin scratching
7) Skin pinching
8) Skin biting
12.3 16.7 89.1 ASIB-3 E
11 1) Head hitting 32.3 36.8 59.3** ASIB-3 A; T
12 1) Head hitting
2) Body hitting
3) Body kicking
4) Skin biting
5) Skin scratching
6) Skin pinching
0.4 2.8 100 ASIB-3 None
13 1) Body hitting
2) Lip/Tongue biting
3) Body kicking
4) Skin pinching
5) Skin scratching
6) Skin biting
7) Banging body on surfaces
0.3 1. 2 98.6 ASIB-3 None
14 1) Head hitting
2) Kneeing head
3) Pressing chin against surfaces
4) Body hitting
5) Body kicking
6) Skin scratching
7) Skin pinching
8) Lip/Tongue biting
3.9 6.7 99.7 ASIB-3 E
15 1) Head hitting
2) Skin biting
0.0 1.4 n/a Social-A E; T
16 1) Head hitting
2) Head banging
3) Skin biting
0.0 3.8 n/a Social-A T
17 1) Head hitting
2) Body hitting
3) Eye poking
4) Pressing chin against objects or surfaces
5) Skin biting
6) Skin scratching
7) Skin picking
8) Hair pulling
0.0 0.3 n/a Social-A None
18 1) Head hitting
2) Kneeing head
3) Body hitting
0.0 0.4 n/a Social-T None
19 1) Head hitting
2) Body hitting
3) Pressing chin against objects or surfaces
4) Skin biting
5) Skin scratching
6) Skin picking
0.0 0.7 n/a Social-T None
20 1) Head hitting
2) Kneeing head
3) Body hitting
4) Pulling hair
5) Skin pinching
6) Skin biting
7) Skin scratching
0.0 2.4 n/a Social-T None
21 1) Head hitting
2) Body hitting
3) Skin biting
4) Skin scratching
5) Skin pinching
0.0 0.4 n/a Social-T None
22 1) Head hitting
2) Body hitting
3) Skin picking
4) Eye rubbing
5) Skin biting
0.0 0.4 n/a Social-A None
23 1) Head hitting
2) Kicking surfaces
3) Knee/Leg banging
4) Skin picking
5) Skin pinching
0.2 3.7 n/a Social-A E

Note. Part. = Participant number; Group = Subcategory or subclassification of function used to group participant; n/a = not applicable; ASIB = automatically maintained SIB; Social = socially maintained SIB; A = attention; E = escape; T = tangible.

*

= Additional functions for SIB found either in the same or some other functional analysis.

**

= Participant’s self-restraint data were gathered from an analogous no interaction condition.