Negative urgency and lack of perseverance: identification of differential pathways of onset and maintenance risk in the longitudinal prediction of nonsuicidal self-injury
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Many researchers have identified impulsivity-related personality traits as correlates of and risk factors for nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI). Using a longitudinal design, we tested the hypothesis that one such trait, negative urgency (the tendency to act rashly when distressed), predicts the onset of NSSI during the first year of college and a different trait, lack of perseverance (the disposition to fail to maintain focus on tasks that are difficult or boring), predicts the maintenance of NSSI during the first year of college. In a sample of n=1,158 college women (mean age=18.04, 95% of participants were 18 at Time 1), we found support for these hypotheses. Negative urgency, measured prior to college entry, predicted the onset of NSSI behavior across the first year of college (odds ratio=1.58). Lack of perseverance predicted the maintenance of NSSI status across the first year of college, controlling for prior NSSI behavior (odds ratio=1.73). These findings indicate that different impulsivity-related personality traits may play different roles in the risk process for NSSI.
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Trait impulsivity is characterized by acting on stimuli without control or forethought and a lack of perseverance and is associated with affective instability.
“As mentioned before, trait impulsivity is characterized by acting on stimuli without control or forethought and a lack of perseverance and is associated with affective instability [33,34].”
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- Authors
- Riley, E. N., Combs, J. L., Jordan, C. E., & Smith, G. T.
- Affiliations
- University of Kentucky (US)
- Corresponding author
- Riley, Elizabeth N.
- Venue
- Behavior Therapy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-07
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 439-448
- ISSN
- 0005-7894 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4801770
- OpenAlex
- W1993944471
- Cited by
- 148
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- 62
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- FWCI
- 10.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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- Behavior Therapy (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- UKnowledge (University of Kentucky) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01aa016166-05)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R01-AA-016166, F31AA020767)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (T32DA035200)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
- Keywords
- non-suicidal self-injury, negative urgency, lack of perseverance, impulsivity, female university students, personality traits, risk factors
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Affective Symptoms, Borderline Personality Disorder, Female, Humans, Impulsive Behavior, Interpersonal Relations, Longitudinal Studies, Negativism, Personality, Risk Factors, Self-Injurious Behavior, Young Adult, Self Report
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