Psychological treatment for female patients with non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a significant issue due to high prevalence of said phenomena among young adults and high risk of development of life threatening behavioral patterns as well as clinical demand for methodological developments on routing the aforementioned individuals in the process of treatment and rehabilitation. The aim of present study was to examine characteristics of NSSI among young women with different pathological personality traits. Using PID-5 questionnaire we examined prevalence of different personality traits among women aged 18 to 30 with NSSI (in accordance with DSM-5 criteria) in their medical history. Functions, methods and severity level of NSSI were analysed; the results indicate that scratching, damaging skin with the use of sharp objects and preventing wounds from healing were the most common methods of NSSI; affect regulation, self-punishment, suicide prevention and stopping the process of dissociation were the most prevalent motives. We identified 3 groups with different pathological traits compositions, specifically Negative affectivity (N) and Psychoticism (P), and NSSI characteristics. Differentiated strategies for psychotherapeutic work with NSSI are proposed, depending on the severity of the combination of Negative affectivity and Psychoticism.
Bartosh et al. (Tue,) studied this question.