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Subsequently, in our research, boys, unlike girls, also mentioned the
most common factors of self-harm, which fall into the area of
toughness and the search for excitement. These motives for self-
harm in boys may be closely related to their sudden physical
changes during adolescence. The shoulders of the boys expand,
there is an intense muscle development, which is also related to the
increase in strength and it expands their physical capabilities. Due to
hormonal activity, they could become more aggressive, fearless, and
therefore more courageous. In girls, such physical development
usually does not occur. Therefore, we think that the tendency to
prove ourselves or others our strength, resilience to pain, and
fearlessness could be one of the causes of self-harm in boys during
adolescence.
Even when participants are divided along family status as well as
sex, the areas of emotion regulation and self-punishment are among
the basic reasons for self-harm. For boys from both complete and
single-parent families, there was again a motive for pain resistance
mentioned very frequently, but for boys from single-parent families,
one of the dominant reasons was the search for excitement. On the
other hand, a motive to point out distress appeared for girls in both
types of families, and a motive belonging to the area of interpersonal
influence also appeared as frequent for girls from single-parent
families. With regard to the above-mentioned results and the studies
(
Tripković et al., 2017; Wang et al., 2019), we can assume that not
only the frequency of self-harm varies with respect to the
completeness of the family, but also the reasons that lead to it may
be specific to adolescents with different family arrangements. Of
course, the formulation of conclusions must still be preceded by a
more detailed examination of the issue.
5.
CONCLUSION
We conducted an initial attempt to understand individual motives of
self-harming behavior among Slovak adolescents with different
family background. As we are aware of the limits of our study
(especially in terms of sample size and methodological accuracy),
we would like to continue our research in a more precious way – for
example, it would be interesting to monitor more variables that
could create different context and, subsequently, lead to self-
harming behavior based on different motives and fulfilling different
needs. Edmondson et al. (2016) claim that a precise review of those
motives is worthwhile because it may increase our understanding in
two areas: first, we know relatively little about the positive personal
(rather than social) functions that might be served by self-harm, and
such functions might help to explain the persistence of such
behavior in the individual's life, and second, we need to develop
new interventions, especially those that depend upon finding
alternative less damaging means to meet the same needs currently
met by self-harm.
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