Two Pathways to Self-Harm in Adolescence.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The behavioral and emotional profiles underlying adolescent self-harm, and its developmental risk factors, are relatively unknown. We aimed to identify subgroups of young people who self-harm (YPSH) and longitudinal risk factors leading to self-harm.

Method

Participants were from the Millennium Cohort Study (N = 10,827). A clustering algorithm was used to identify subgroups who self-harmed with different behavioral and emotional profiles at age 14 years. We then traced the profiles back in time (ages 5-14 years) and used feature selection analyses to identify concurrent correlates and longitudinal risk factors of self-harming behavior.

Results

There were 2 distinct subgroups at age 14 years: a smaller group (n = 379) who reported a long history of psychopath

SUBMITTER: Uh S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8661039 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature