Table A3.
Descriptive statistics: Methods for NSSI
Method for NSSI | n | % | κ | agreement |
Cutting | 461 | 92.2 | 0.21 | fair |
Hitting; bruising | 86 | 17.2 | 0.81 | almost perfect |
Scratching; picking | 72 | 14.4 | 0.67 | substantial |
Burning | 68 | 13.6 | 0.86 | almost perfect |
Biting | 24 | 4.8 | 0.87 | almost perfect |
Starving; food restriction | 21 | 4.2 | ||
Purging | 7 | 1.4 | ||
Overdose | 7 | 1.4 |
Methods for self-injury in descending order of the number of r/selfharm users (n = 500) mentioning having used that method at least once. κ = Fleiss’s kappa statistic, an indicator of intercoder reliability. Interpretation of κ (from Landis & Koch, 1977) is also reported. All values of κ were significantly better than chance agreement at the P < 0.001 level. Items with associated κ’s are from an a priori codebook, while no κ’s are reported for additional methods added to the codebook post hoc. These additional items were mentioned by at least 1% of users (n = 5), after resolving disagreements between coders.