Year: 1997 Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, v.36, no.6, (June 1997), p.793-798 SIEC No: 19981172

Measures of affect dysregulation, number of risk-taking behaviours in the past year, presence of self-mutilative behaviours in the past year, & number of different types of self-mutilative behaviours in the past year were administered to adolescent inpatients (25 suicides ideators & 35 suicide attempters. Suicide attempters reported significantly higher levels of affect dysregulation & a greater number of different types of self-mutilative behaviours in the past year than did suicide ideators.