Lifetime and 12-Month Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Academic Performance in College Freshmen.

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We examined whether nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is associated with academic performance in college freshmen, using census-based web surveys (N = 7,527; response = 65.4%). NSSI was assessed with items from the Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Interview and subsequently linked with the administratively recorded academic year percentage (AYP). Freshmen with lifetime and 12-month NSSI showed a reduction in AYP of 3.4% and 5.9%, respectively. The college environment was found to moderate the effect of 12-month NSSI, with more strongly reduced AYPs in departments with higher-than-average mean departmental AYPs. The findings suggest that overall stress and test anxiety are underlying processes between NSSI membership and academic performance.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Suicide Life Threat Behav

Title: Suicide & life-threatening behavior

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

ISSN (Electronic): 1943-278X

ISSN (Print): 0363-0234

Publication date (Electronic): Oct 2016

Volume: 46

Issue: 5

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[1 ] Research Group Psychiatry, Department of Neurosciences, KU Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium. Glenn.Kiekens@kuleuven.be.

[2 ] Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium.

[3 ] Research Group Psychiatry, Department of Neurosciences, KU Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium.

[4 ] Harvard Medical School, Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA.

[5 ] School of Education, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.

[6 ] Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.

[7 ] Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.

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DOI: 10.1111/sltb.12237

PubMed ID: 26954061

SO-VID: 0ddd6926-5569-4aa0-a55a-b61130b0d0fd

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