Impulsive Personality Traits, Emotional Disclosure and Self-Harm Tendencies in Early Adults
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2018
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University of Management and Technology
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Self-harm also known as the self-injury the act of knowingly harming own body purposefully like cutting, hitting and burning. Self-harm is an unhealthy way to cope with anger, frustration and emotional pain. It can found in any age but the more ratio is observed in the early adults. There can be many reasons behind including the personalities who are impulsive. People with impulsive personality traits are more prone to self-harm. Impulsivity is an affinity to action on a quirk, showing the behavior considered by little or no precaution, reflection, or consideration of the consequences. But in our culture the impulsivity is controlled including the authoritative behaviors in the childhood which in the later years show the repression of the feelings and people did not disclose their emotions. The emotional disclosure is the expression of the feelings. People use the self-harm behaviors as the expression of emotions to reduce pain. In the current research the cross sectional research design used with total sample of early adults was 302 including both genders (165 males, 137 females) across the age range of 18-26. For results the statistical analysis used including t-test, correlation, regression and factors analysis. On the basis of the results it was concluded that there is a positive relationship between the self-harm and emotional disclosure but there is a week relationship between the self-harm and impulsive personality traits. Hence, the hypothesis showed the relationships between the variables. And the process with reasons and symptoms were discussed.
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Supervised by: Ms. Maryam Rizvi
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Impulsive personality traits, Emotional disclosure,including t-test, correlation, regression