@article{ref1,
title="Adolescent psychiatric inpatients' self-reported reasons for cutting themselves",
journal="Journal of nervous and mental disease",
year="2004",
author="Kumar, Gaurav and Pepe, Deanna and Steer, R. A.",
volume="192",
number="12",
pages="830-836",
abstract="To ascertain (1) whether male and female adolescent (13-17 years old) psychiatric inpatients endorse comparable reasons for cutting themselves and (2) whether these reasons are correlated with selected psychosocial characteristics of the adolescents, self-reported depression, and hopelessness, the Self-Injury Motivation Scale II (SIMS-II), the Beck Depression Inventory-II, and the Beck Hopelessness Scale were administered to 19 (38%) male and 31 (62%) female adolescents who had cut themselves. Independent t tests found that none of the SIMS-II subscale scores was differentiated by sex, but the Beck Depression Inventory-II total score was significantly correlated with the SIMS-II total, Affect Modulation, Desolation, and Punitive Duality subscale scores. The results are discussed as indicating that male and female adolescent inpatients endorse comparable reasons for cutting themselves and that self-reported depression is positively associated with the number and intensity of different motivations for cutting oneself.",
language="",
issn="0022-3018",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}