A Qualitative Study of Self-Injurious Behaviour in Women Offenders
Figure 5. Types of precipitating events to NSSI.
This bar chart shows the number of participants who reported experiencing each precipitating event prior to engaging in NSSI. The most type of event reported was interpersonal conflict (n = 22), abuse (n = 16), stressful life event (n = 10), offence or institutional event (n = 8), death of a family member (n = 7), and seeing someone else self-injurying (n = 7).