Religiosity/spirituality: Relationships with non-suicidal self-harm behaviors and attempted suicide.

CONCLUSIONS: Some but not all aspects of RS are associated with lowered risk for self-harm. In this study, considering oneself a religious person and reporting a general sense of RS well-being offered the most protective effect to participants, particularly the latter. PMID: 25862549 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25862549?dopt=Abstract

Source: The International Journal of Social Psychiatry - April 10, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Sansone RA, Wiederman MW Tags: Int J Soc Psychiatry Source Type: research

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