342: Test 3: Liss Articles

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20%

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percentage of college students that reported having self-injured at some point in their lives

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reasons people self injure

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childhood trauma; sense of control; self-punishment; instead of suicide; relieve anger, stress or other emotions; to feel "real" dissociation

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self-injury

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deliberate harm to own body, but not to the point where it results in death

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SIB

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self-injurious behavior

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variables that predict SIB

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trauma; physical and emotional neglect; sexual abuse; alexithymia; dissociation

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alexithymia

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inability to identify and express emotional experiences appropriately and to describe emotions in words; related to sematization problems; "no words for emotions"

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relationship of child abuse or neglect to self-injury

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exposed to high levels of arousal, but not taught how to cope in those situations; may serve as a way to gain control in high arousal situations

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three factors of alexithymia

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difficulty identifying feelings; difficulty describing feelings; externally oriented thinking

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dissociation

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losing track of time/person, "disconnect" from real world, out of body; related to abuse; coping mechanism to numb pain or block out traumatizing events in childhood; related to self-objectification

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questionable relationship of dissociation and self-injury

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relieve feeling of numbness or dissociation while self-injuring?

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college self-injurers vs. internet self-injurers

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internet self-injury more intense and more likely to cut; also greater intensity related to greater likelihood of realizing they have a problem

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variables that differentiate the self injury group from the non-self injury group

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depression and emotional neglect

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self-injury article conclusions

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high level of negative affect that they don't know how to deal with; when you've had an abusive past, don't know how to get feelings out appropriately

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limitations of self-injury study

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sample may not be representative of population; all self-report data

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sensory processing sensitivity (SPS)

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tendency to process a variety of information more strongly and deeply than others; may be more sensitive to poor parenting and may have a more temperamental disposition; respond to lower thresholds of stimuli

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goal of SPS article

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examine how SPS interacts with environmental variables related to anxiety and depression

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SPS confused with

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neuroticism, fearfulness, reactivity

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SPS only leeads to negative outcomes in context of

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poor family environment

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reasons parent overprotection leads to depression, anxiety and OCD

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interfere with infant's coping mechanism

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origin of SPS

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genetically based; present at birth; located in central nervous system

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Aaron and Aaron

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although SPS and neurotics/introvers may not proceed in face of novel situations, highly sensitive aren't prone to more negative emotional states

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low care associated with

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depression

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overprotection associated with

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anxiety

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cortisol

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behaviorally inhibited toddlers in a novel situation experienced increase in this only when they are in insecure attachment relationships

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HSPS and overprotection

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either one could cause the other; parents overprotective because see sensitive child as fragile or children become sensitive because don't know how to care for selves

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HSPS and depression

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only depressed in context of low parental care because parent didn't serve as buffer between them and the real world

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limitations of HSPS study

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only self-report data

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potential follow up study to the HSPS article

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distinction from behavioral inhibition or shyness