@article{ref1,
title="Affect regulation and suicide attempts in adolescent inpatients",
journal="Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry",
year="1997",
author="Zlotnick, C. and Donaldson, D. and Spirito, Anthony and Pearlstein, T.",
volume="36",
number="6",
pages="793-798",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between affect dysregulation and self-destructive behaviors in adolescent suicide attempters. METHOD: Measures of affect dysregulation, number of risk-taking behaviors in past year, presence of self-mutilative behaviors in past year, and number of different types of self-mutilative behaviors in past year were individually administered to adolescents admitted to an inpatient unit who were either suicide ideators (n = 25) or suicide attempters (n = 35). RESULTS: Suicide attempters reported significantly higher levels of affect dysregulation and a greater number of different types of self-mutilative behaviors in the past year than suicide ideators. In addition, the number of different types of self-mutilative behaviors in the past year had the strongest relationship to suicide attempts. CONCLUSION: Suicidal behavior among adolescent psychiatric patients is related to poor affect regulation. A risk factor for suicidal behavior in adolescents is a broad range of self-mutilative acts in the year preceding the suicide attempt.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0890-8567",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}