Journal Article

The Relationship between Non-Suicidal Self-Injury and the UPPS-P Impulsivity Facets in Eating Disorders and Healthy Controls

Claes, Laurence, Islam, Mohammed A., Rossi, Elisa, Fernández-Aranda, Fernando, Menchón, José M., Jimenez-Murcia, Susana, Fagundo, Ana B., Granero, Roser, Agüera, Zaida

2015

Overview

In the present study, we investigated the association between Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) and the UPPS-P impulsivity facets in eating disorder patients and healthy controls. The prevalence of NSSI in eating disorder (ED) patients ranged from 17% in restrictive anorexia nervosa (AN-R) patients to 43% in patients with bulimia nervosa (BN). In healthy controls (HC), the prevalence of NSSI was 19%. Eating disorder patients from the binge eating/purging type showed significantly more NSSI compared to restrictive ED and HC participants. Binge-eating/purging ED patients also scored significantly higher on Negative/Positive Urgency, Lack of Premeditation and Lack of Perseverance compared to HC and restrictive ED patients. Comparable findings were found between ED patients and HC with and without NSSI; ED patients and HC with NSSI scored significantly higher in four of the five UPPS-P dimensions compared to participants without NSSI; Sensation Seeking was the exception. Finally, the presence of NSSI in HC/ED patients was particularly predicted by low levels of Perseverance. Therefore, the treatment of ED patients with NSSI certainly needs to focus on the training of effortful control.

• Publisher: Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subject: Adult / Anorexia / Anorexia nervosa / Anorexia Nervosa - complications / Anorexia Nervosa - physiopathology / Anorexia Nervosa - psychology / Anorèxia nerviosa / Autocontrol / Binge-Eating Disorder - complications / Binge-Eating Disorder - physiopathology / Binge-Eating Disorder - psychology / Body Mass Index / Bulimia / Bulimia nervosa / Bulimia Nervosa - complications / Bulimia Nervosa - physiopathology / Bulimia Nervosa - psychology / Bulímia / Case-Control Studies / Cognition & reasoning / College students / Comparative analysis / Complications and side effects / Compulsive behavior / Computer & video games / Conducta compulsiva / Conducta suïcida / Diagnosis / Eating / Eating behavior / Eating disorders / Educational Status / Emergency medicine / Emotions / Employment - psychology / Female / Ferides i lesions / Health aspects / Humans / Impulse / Impulsive Behavior / Impulsivity / Impulsos (Psicologia) / Marital Status / Medicine / Mental health / Patients / Personality / Personality Inventory / Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Psychiatry / Psychological aspects / Self destructive behavior / Self injurious behavior / Self Report / Self-control / Self-Injurious Behavior - complications / Self-Injurious Behavior - physiopathology / Self-Injurious Behavior - psychology / Self-injury / Suicidal behavior / Suicide / Surveys and Questionnaires / Suïcidi / Trastorns de la conducta alimentària / Wounds and injuries