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Self‐Harm and Conventional Gender Roles in Women
Author(s) -
Straiton Melanie L.,
Hjelmeland Heidi,
Grimholt Tine K.,
Dieserud Gudrun
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1111/sltb.12005
Subject(s) - masculinity , multinomial logistic regression , femininity , logistic regression , psychology , harm , odds , agency (philosophy) , clinical psychology , demography , psychiatry , medicine , social psychology , sociology , machine learning , computer science , psychoanalysis , social science
A total of thirty‐two women admitted to a general hospital for medical treatment after self‐harming completed measures of conventional positive and negative masculinity and femininity. Comparisons were made with two control groups with no self‐harm history; 33 women receiving psychiatric outpatient treatment and a nonclinical sample of 206 women. Multinomial logistic regression analyses showed that those with lower scores on Instrumentality and Unmitigated Agency (positive and negative masculinity) and higher scores on Insecurity (negative femininity) had greater odds of self‐harming. Relationships were weaker after accounting for generalized self‐efficacy. Results are discussed in relation to previous findings and suggestions for prevention are made.