Proposed Diagnostic Criteria for the DSM-5 of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Female Adolescents: Diagnostic and Clinical Correlates
Table 6
Clinical correlates of non-clinical adolescents (NCA), clinical controls (CCA), adolescents with NSSI without impairment/distress (NSSI-C), and adolescents with NSSI disorder (NSSI), as well as MANOVA and ANOVA with orthogonal contrasts and effect sizes (Cohen’s ) between non-clinical and clinical groups (NCA versus rest), clinical controls and NSSI (CCA versus NSSI total), and NSSI disorder versus NSSI-C.
Questionnaire
NCA M (SD)
CCA M (SD)
NSSI-C M (SD)
NSSI M (SD)
NCA versus rest
Cohen’s
CCA versus NSSI total
Cohen’s
NSSI disorder versus NSSI-C
Cohen’s
ANOVA
GAF
94.20 (3.87)
59.55 (6.40)
56.27 (4.50)
53.70 (10.17)
34.84**
7.26
−2.55*
0.80
1.19
0.38
YSR Totala
51.60 (14.23)
83.79 (19.13)
98.93 (18.11)
111.31 (26.77)
11.72**
2.44
2.97**
0.62
1.22
0.25
YSR. EXTa
8.08 (4.32)
12.91 (1.74)
18.28 (9.38)
21.31 (11.32)
5.89**
1.23
2.17*
0.45
0.48
0.10
DERS
70.59 (16.89)
97.79 (24.14)
108.16 (17.55)
123.42 (25.80)
8.25**
1.72
2.76**
0.58
2.09
0.44
MANOVA 1
DASS depressionb
1.25 (1.76)
8.84 (5.73)
11.83 (6.37)
13.82 (4.56)
165.85**
2.88
7.86**
0.81
1.51
0.41
DASS anxietyb
1.84 (2.19)
7.63 (4.49)
7.56 (4.71)
8.95 (5.26)
68.08**
1.89
0.11
0.17
0.80
0.28
DASS stressb
3.68 (2.74)
8.83 (4.40)
10.60 (4.37)
11.38 (4.60)
71.73**
1.88
2.71
0.54
0.20
0.16
BDIb
5.57 (5.87)
23.36 (13.11)
30.22 (9.38)
36.32 (12.32)
155.19**
2.70
11.07**
1.03
3.16
0.74
YSR. INTb
8.18 (6.58)
25.28 (9.67)
31.37 (8.29)
33.75 (10.04)
169.24**
2.78
6.47*
0.91
0.51
0.29
MANOVA 2
QTFac
1.44 (0.36)
2.33 (0.90)
2.99 (0.48)
3.21 (0.83)
100.00**
2.42
12.91**
0.94
0.25
0.42
BSL-95ac
38.04 (17.47)
120.47 (76.01)
140.80 (64.29)
186.62 (64.93)
108.38**
2.45
4.79*
0.75
1.69
0.62
Note. GAF: Global Assessment of Functioning; YSR: Youth Self Report, INT: internal, EXT: external; DASS: Depression Anxiety Stress Scales; BDI: Beck’s Depression Inventory; QTF: Questionnaire of Thoughts and Feelings; BSL-95: Borderline Symptom List; DERS: Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale; *; **; ***. alog transformed/bSQRT transformed, cadolescents with BPD were excluded from these analyses.
