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Identifying the Risk of Deliberate Self‐Harm Among Young Prisoners by Means of Coping Typologies
Author(s) -
Kirchner Teresa,
Forns Maria,
Mohíano Susana
Publication year - 2008
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 - 10.1521/suli.2008.38.4.442
Subject(s) - coping (psychology) , imprisonment , psychology , harm , typology , avoidance coping , clinical psychology , social psychology , criminology , sociology , anthropology
Self‐harming behavior during incarceration has been a topic of increasing attention in recent years. Some authors attribute these episodes to the high level of stress that imprisonment generates coupled with a low quality of coping strategies employed by inmates. The main aim of this study was to identify, by means of coping typologies, prisoners at higher risk of self‐harming behavior. The results highlighted the fact that coping typologies permitted the classification of inmates into four groups and the identification of those at lower and higher risk of self‐harming. The group at greater risk was the one that used more avoidance and less approach coping.