Resisting Urges to Self-Injure

Resisting Urges to Self-Injure.

The present study explored whether and how self-injurers attempt to resist urges to harm themselves. Participants were 39 young adults with a history of skin cutting and other non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors. A structured interview assessed the prevalence and perceived helpfulness of 48 methods for resisting self-injurious urges. Ninety percent of participants indicated that they had made...

Cue-induced smoking urges deplete cigarette smokers' self-control resources.

BACKGROUND Exposure to smoking-related cues leads to increased urge to smoke in regular cigarette smokers and resisting these urges requires considerable self-control. PURPOSE Adopting a resource depletion model, two studies tested the hypothesis that resisting smoking urges depletes self-control resources. METHODS Adopting a within-participants randomized cross-over design, participants (s...

Urges to eat and drink in rats.

Studies of nutrition usually depend upon the animal’s urges to eat and to drink. But little has been done to find what factors of the diet rn&l3y those urges. When body weight is employed as a measure of nutritive state, the observer ordinarily is assuming that intake has been sufficient to supply whatever is available. If weight has been lost he often assumes that the diet is inadequate qualit...

Gore Urges Action

Self-regulation and Social Influence: a Limited-resource Account of Resisting and Yielding to Persuasion