While non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is not a new phenomenon, there is still a limited yet little is still known about understanding of the behavior, the intent behind the behavior and what the individuals themselves say about their behavior. This study collected pro-NSSI public blog posts from Reddit on pro-NSSI and analyzed the content linguistically using LIWC software, in order to examine the use of NSSI specific words, linguistic properties and the psychological linguistic properties. were examined. The results inform current counseling practices by dispelling myths and providing insight into the inner world of people who engage in use NSSII to cope. The most frequently appearing category of For NSSI specific words categories, in the Reddit blogs was the reasons in which one engagesfor engaging in NSSI was the most frequently used in the Reddit blogs. The linguistic properties found in the analysis reflected the predicted results; authors of pro-NSSI posts used demonstrated expected results of first-person singular pronouns extensively, which indicatesing high levels of mental health distress and isolation. The psychological linguistic properties that could be observed of in these public Reddit posts were dominantly in a negative emotional tone which demonstrates youth and impulsivity. The linguistic properties found when these posts were analyzed supports the work of earlier studies that dispelled common myths about NSSI that were circulating in the mental health community. These findings suggest that the language of people who engage in NSSI supports research findings in dispelling common myths about NSSI.
翻译:虽然非自杀性自我伤害(NSSI)不是一个新现象,但对于理解行为、行为背后的意图和个人自己对自己行为的看法,人们仍然所知有限,但对于了解行为、行为背后的意图和个人本人对自己行为的看法仍然知之甚少。这项研究收集了来自Reddit的Reddit的亲NSSI公共博客文章,在支持NSSI的网站上最经常使用,并分析了使用LiWC软件的语言内容,以研究使用NSSSI具体词的使用、语言属性和心理语言语言特性。研究结果通过消除NSSII的神话和深入了解使用NSSII应对的人的内心世界,为目前的咨询做法提供了信息。对于NSSI的具体词汇类别而言,在Reddit博客中最经常出现的是个人参与NSSI的公共博客。分析中发现的语言特性反映了预测的结果;使用支持NSSI的作者们展示了第一人单名的预期结果,表明精神痛苦和孤立的程度很高。在这些公众重新化文章中可以观察到的心理语言特性。在SIS的这些公共文章中观察到的关于SIS的具体特性,在Reddit部落格中最常见的情绪分析我先前的情绪研究中发现,年轻人是典型的。