Article Date: 19 May 2009 - 8:00 PDT
"A lack of emotional intelligence leads to poor coping strategies and seriously increases the likelihood of self-harm in teenagers, claims a study published yesterday, in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology. . .
Dr Petrides said: "People who turn to self harm claim to do so to regulate their emotions, which indicates that they cannot manage their feelings in a healthy way. We wanted to better understand the underlying psychological issues that lead adolescents to harm themselves."
Of the 490 students who took part, 132 (27 per cent) reported having deliberately self harmed, either hitting or cutting themselves or taking an overdose of recreational drugs. 65 per cent of self harmers were found to have mild to severe symptoms of depression. . . " Read More
Recent Comments