@article{ref1,
title="Borderline personality disorder and deliberate self-harm: does experiential avoidance play a role?",
journal="Suicide and life-threatening behavior",
year="2005",
author="Chapman, A. L. and Specht, Matthew W. and Cellucci, T.",
volume="35",
number="4",
pages="388-399",
abstract="The theory that borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with experiential avoidance, and that experiential avoidance mediates the association between BPD and deliberate, nonsuicidal self-harm was examined. Female inmate participants (N = 105) were given structured diagnostic assessments of BPD, as well as several measures of experiential avoidance. There was a high lifetime prevalence of past self-harm (47.6%). Higher dimensional scores representing BPD severity were associated with higher self-harm frequency and greater experiential avoidance. Structural equation modeling analyses indicated that experiential avoidance did not mediate the association between BPD and self-harm, although thought suppression was associated with self-harm frequency.",
language="",
issn="0363-0234",
doi="10.1521/suli.2005.35.4.388",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/suli.2005.35.4.388"
}