Personal traits of young men with self-injurious behavior and with subclinical depression

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17072/2078-7898/2021-3-454-465

Personal traits of young men with self-injurious behavior and with subclinical depression

Svetlana O. Kuznetsova
Candidate of Psychology,
Associate Professor of the Faculty of Psychology,
Institute for Social Sciences

Russian Presidential academy of national economy and public administration,
82, Vernadskiy av., Moscow, 119571, Russia;
e-mail: kash-kuznezova@yandex.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3737-7595
ResearcherID: AAY-9689-2021

Marina V. Takmakova
Candidate of Psychology, Senior researcher
of the High school of law, IPACS

Russian Presidential academy of national economy and public administration,
82, Vernadskiy av., Moscow, 119571, Russia;
e-mail: 60605060@mail.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7471-0596
ResearcherID: AAZ-2265-2021

The article presents the results of empirical research studying the personal characteristics of young men with self-injurious behavior and subclinical depression. Relevance of this topic is conditioned by the frequency of self-injurious behavior. A general hypothesis of the study was the statement that there are significant differences in the intensity of personality traits in young men with subclinical depression who have a history of self-injurious behavior as opposed to young men with subclinical depression but without self-injurious behavior, and also opposed to the test audience without the symptoms of depression and self-harm. The survey sample consisted of 169 young men aged from 18 to 22 years (average age — 19.2). We applied the methods of testing, polling, subjective scaling, statistical analysis. In the group with subclinical depression and self-harm were noted low self-esteem, high levels of situational anxiety, personal anxiety, proneness to conflict, neuroticism, spontaneous aggressiveness, irritability, and emotional lability. Young men from this group demonstrated lower rates of inherent worth, self-acceptance, self-attachment, mirror self, and sociability than those with subclinical depression but without self-harm. A positive correlation was revealed between the severity of self-harm and situational aggressiveness, proneness to conflict, self-accusation, neuroticism, spontaneous aggressiveness, depression, low self-esteem; a negative correlation was found between the severity of self-harm and inherent worth, self-acceptance, self-attachment and the mirror self. There is a positive correlation between depression and cynicism, hostility, aggressiveness, anxiety, proneness to conflict, irritability, and low self-esteem, and a negative correlation between depression and sociability and openness.

Keywords: self-injurious behavior, personality traits, the youth, non-suicidal self-injury, subclinical depression.

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Received: 16.06.2021. Accepted: 25.07.2021

For citation:

Kuznetsova S.O., Takmakova M.V. [Personal traits of young men with self-injurious behavior and with subclinical depression]. Vestnik Permskogo universiteta. Filosofia. Psihologia. Sociologia [Perm University Herald. Philosophy. Psychology. Sociology], 2021, issue 3, pp. 454–465 (in Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.17072/2078-7898/2021-3-454-465