Research has been conducted on a) relations between academic self-concept and academic achievement, which is well established in the literature, however there remains disagreement about the causal ordering of these constructs b) relations between motivation and academic achievement which show moderate-to-strong correlations and c) relations between academic self-concept and motivational indicat...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether deliberate self harm is associated with contemporary Goth youth subculture. DESIGN Longitudinal cohort study. SETTING School and community based study of young people living in the Central Clydeside Conurbation, Scotland. PARTICIPANTS 1258 people aged 19, surveyed in 2002-4 and followed-up since age 11 (1994). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Lifetime prevalence of...

Empowerment of women has emerged as an important issue in recent times. The economic empowerment of women is being regarded these days as a Sine-quo-non of progress for a country; hence, the issue of economic empowerment of women is of paramount importance to political thinkers, social scientists and reformers. The Self Help Groups (SHGs) have paved the way for economic independence of rural wo...

PROBLEM If and how family support and self-esteem might interact to protect against adolescent suicide risk is not well understood. METHODS Hierarchical multiple regression was used to examine the moderating effect of family support on the relationship between self-esteem and suicide risk behaviors among potential high school dropouts (N = 849), using questionnaires and in-depth assessment in...

Volume 83, Number 5 www.aafp.org/afp American Family Physician 609 Case Scenario A 16-year-old girl with no remarkable medical history presented to my clinic for a routine well-adolescent appointment. During the visit, I discovered multiple well-healed linear scars on her upper arms and legs. When I questioned her about these lesions, she admitted to cutting herself during the past several mont...

Self-injurious behavior (SIB) or self-mutilating behavior (SMB) is rare but can occur in temporal lobe epilepsy. Such a behavior during seizures is not usually recalled by patient. Here is a case with self mutilating behavior in left temporal lobe epilepsy, presented because of its rare manifestation and diagnostic dilemma. A 19 year old unmarried Muslim student presented to emergency with SMB,...

Self-injurious behavior is commonly observed among persons with intellectual disabilities. However, a second parallel use of this term is used in the general mental health field for self-mutilation. The authors describe these two disorders and how they differ. Characteristics of what we refer to as repetitive self-injurious behavior among persons with intellectual disabilities and risk factors ...

We compared results obtained from 50 sets of functional analysis data from assessments of self-injurious behavior (SIB), 35 of which showed clear response patterns and 15 of which were undifferentiated, with those obtained from two abbreviated methods of assessment: (a) a brief functional analysis, consisting of the first session of each condition from the full functional analysis, and (b) a wi...

The primary aims of the current study were to longitudinally examine the direct relationship between children's temperamental surgency and social behaviors as well as the moderating role of children's emotion regulation. A total of 90 4.5-year-old children participated in a laboratory visit where children's temperamental surgency was rated by experimenters and children's emotion regulation abil...