Self-Harm Limitations

While there were no ethical issues, this study had a few limitations. One involving reliance on the self-report measures of abuse, neglect and self-harm that it provides no way to differentiate the actual occurrence of any of these. Other limitations discussed how the study was correlational and cross-sectional by nature, and that it is possible the order of these relationships is completely different than what results showed. For example, although theoretical literature suggests that affect intensity/reactivity may serve as a risk factor for self-harm, it is also possible that self-harm could increase the risk for affect intensity/reactivity. Many questions were left unanswered by this study, the most concerning is could these results be shown within other populations? (Males, other ethnic backgrounds …show more content…
They analyzed the ecological and individual variables related with the development of DSH within male undergraduates. The study wanted to extend research by examining the environmental and individual risk factors associated with the development and maintenance of DSH among these undergraduates. The sample of participants was 97 undergraduates of all backgrounds between the ages of 18 to 46 (however there were far more single Caucasians in this study among anything else). Result showed that childhood physical abuse and emotion dysregulation distinguished men with histories of self-harm from men without. It was determined that 40% of the participants revealed a past of DSH and 84% of them have expressed that they harmed themselves more than once. Reports of numerous accounts of DSH were also shown in the prior study discussed (Brausch & Holaday, 2015). Raw DSHI scores of DSH frequency were positively skewed. Emotional neglect and overprotection variables were similar by having a mean of .99 and