A cognitive-emotional model of NSSI: using emotion regulation and cognitive processes to explain why people self-injure

作者：Penelope Hasking, Janis Whitlock, David Voon, Alyssa Rose · 发表于：Cognition & Emotion · 年份：2016 · DOI：10.1080/02699931.2016.1241219 · 被引用次数：376 · 研究领域：Suicide and Self-Harm Studies、Traumatic Brain Injury Research、Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a complex behaviour, routinely engaged for emotion regulatory purposes. As such, a number of theoretical accounts regarding the aetiology and maintenance of NSSI are grounded in models of emotion regulation; the role that cognition plays in the behaviour is less well known. In this paper, we summarise four models of emotion regulation that have repeatedly been related to NSSI and identify the core components across them. We then draw on social cognitive theory to unite models of cognition and models of emotion in developing a new cognitive-emotional model of NSSI. Our model articulates how emotion regulation and cognition can work in concert to govern NSSI, and offers several new research questions that can be addressed within this framework.