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Nadia Al-Dajani; Ewa K. Czyz; Daniel Eisenberg; Kai Zheng; Cheryl A. King – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: We examined whether meaningful subgroups of self-injurious behaviors (SIBs) would emerge within a pool of first-year college students already deemed at elevated risk. Participants: First-year undergraduates (N = 1,068) recruited in 2015-2018 Fall terms. Methods: Past-year nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) frequency, past-year number of…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, At Risk Persons, Self Destructive Behavior, Suicide
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Sappok, Tanja; Budczies, Jan; Dziobek, Isabel; Bölte, Sven; Dosen, Anton; Diefenbacher, Albert – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2014
Individuals with intellectual disability (ID) show high rates of challenging behavior (CB). The aim of this retrospective study was to assess the factors underlying CB in an adult, clinical ID sample (n = 203). Low levels of emotional development (ED), as measured by the "Scheme of Appraisal of ED," predicted overall CB, specifically…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Behavior Problems, Adults, Emotional Development
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Matson, Johnny L.; Fodstad, Jill C.; Rivet, Tessa T.; Rojahn, Johannes – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2009
Participants were 109 adults with severe intellectual disabilities and long histories of psychotropic drug use. Side effect profiles were examined in the context of types of mental health disorders observed using the Diagnostic Assessment for the Severely Handicapped-Revised (DASH-II) and the Behavior Problems Inventory-Revised (BPI-01). The best…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Severe Disabilities, Self Destructive Behavior, Severe Mental Retardation
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Chiles, John A.; And Others – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1986
Psychiatric inpatients (N=59) were interviewd concerning psychological and environmental events that occurred in the 24 hours prior to their hospitalization. Suicide attempters were more likely to have used alcohol or marijuana and less likely to have contacted a health care professional than suicide ideators, even when past history of suicide…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Environmental Influences, Patients, Psychiatric Hospitals
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Daigneault, Isabelle; Hebert, Martine; Tourigny, Marc – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2006
This study aims to assess the predictive value of two sets of variables, self-attributions, and coping behaviors, on sexually abused (SA) teenagers' functioning, while controlling for abuse-related and family variables. A total of 103 female adolescents completed self-report measures to assess their psychological functioning in terms of anxiety,…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Drug Use, Adolescents, Coping
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology