Self injurious behavior among homeless young adults: a social stress analysis.
Self injurious behavior among homeless young adults: a social stress analysis.
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无家可归的年轻人的自残行为：社会压力分析。
DOI：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.10.008
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发表时间：
2010
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通讯作者：
Almazan,Elbert
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作者：
Tyler,Kimberly;Melander,Lisa;Almazan,Elbert
虽然从医学和个人的角度对自残进行了研究，但很少在社会压力的背景下进行研究。因此，我们使用社会压力框架来研究自残的风险因素，以确定通常与普通人群健康状况较差相关的状态压力是否也与美国有无家可归史的年轻人样本中的自残有关。数据来自无家可归的年轻成年人项目，其中涉及199名年轻成年人在美国中西部3个城市的采访。我们的路径分析结果显示，许多压力源，包括逃跑，物质使用，性受害，和非法的生存策略与更多的自残。此外，我们发现，某些社会地位加剧了自残的风险，超出了受访者目前的无家可归状况。我们讨论了我们的研究结果对社会压力框架的影响，并在此背景下为研究这一独特的人群提供了建议。
Although self-mutilation has been studied from medical and individual perspectives, it has rarely been examined within a social stress context. As such, we use a social stress framework to examine risk factors for self-mutilation to determine whether status strains that are often associated with poorer health outcomes in the general population are also associated with self-mutilation among a sample of young adults in the United States who have a history of homelessness. Data are drawn from the Homeless Young Adult Project which involved interviews with 199 young adults in 3 Midwestern United States cities. The results of our path analyses revealed that numerous stressors including running away, substance use, sexual victimization, and illegal subsistence strategies were associated with more self-mutilation. In addition, we found that certain social statuses exacerbate the risk for self-mutilation beyond the respondents' current situation of homelessness. We discuss the implications of our findings for the social stress framework and offer suggestions for studying this unique population within this context.