Media release

From: The Royal Society

Emotional responding to overt and subtle social exclusion among young women who engage in nonsuicidal self-injury

Royal Society Open Science

One in four young people deliberately injure themselves; not to end their life, but rather to manage overwhelming emotions. This study found that although people who self-injure report difficulties managing their emotions in general, they showed a similar response to real-time emotional challenge as do people who have never self-injured. Findings highlight the importance of understanding why people who self-injure experience difficulties managing their emotions in order to better support people who self-injure.