Self-Mutilation and Anxiety

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This paper examines studies and research conducted on the practice of self-mutilation. The paper explains that research has found evidence that anxiety plays a major role in self-mutilation while poof of the relationship between depression and self-mutilation is mixed. The paper also points out that even though mutilation has been gaining extensive attention in the mainstream culture, very little is still known about what precipitates acts of self-harm. The paper goes on to briefly summarize two theoretical models that were created to account for the behavior.

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Anxiety Reduction Model
Hostility Model

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"In sum, both the anxiety reduction model and the hostility model share the statement that the lessening of tension is the catalyst for the self-harming act. The major disparity between the models is the premise inherent in the hostility model that it is the inability to express hostility that results in increasing tension which terminate in the act of self-mutilation, while in the anxiety reduction model hostility is not supposed to play a critical role; rather it is tension that leads directly to anxiety which escort to self-mutilation."

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