ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
Adolescent Victimization and Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors: A Genetically Sensitive Cohort Study
- Jessie Baldwin
King's College London - Louise Arseneault
King's College London - Andrea Danese
King's College London
Abstract
We tested whether adolescent victimization is causally related to self-injurious thoughts and behaviours in a longitudinal study of 2,232 British twins. Co-twin control and propensity-score matching analyses showed that victimized adolescents have elevated risk of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors largely because of pre-existing vulnerabilities, and only partly because of victimization.
Risk/Resilience