Studies have been done to see if there were any correlations between NSSI and suicide. Research conducted by Matthew K. Nock and several other psychologists, using a cross-sectional study, evaluated to if there is was any connection between NSSI and suicide attempts and to see the distinguishing characteristics of adolescents who within a year engaged in NSSI. The goals of their study were to evaluate the diagnostic characteristics in teens who recently have engaged in NSSI in the last twelve months and evaluate the relationship between NSSI, suicide attempts, and the experience of pain in adolescents, who were in a clinical inpatient sample. With the goal of evaluating the relation of NSSI and suicide attempts, they predicted that more suicide attempts would be committed when it is correlated with a greater number of NSSI episodes, using different methods of NSSI, and having longer episodes of NSSI (Nock, Joiner, Gordon, Lloyd-Richardson &Prinstein, 2006).…show more content… al., 2006). The way that the participants were assessed for the study was by clinical interviews that were appropriate to their psychiatric diagnosis. All participants had met with DSM-4 criteria for either Axis I or Axis II diagnosis of personality disorder. Participants with axis I diagnosis were given the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC), while female participants with axis II diagnosis were given the Diagnostic Interview for DSM-IV Personality Disorder (DIPD-IV) (Nock et. al., 2006). Nock et. al. (2006) used Functional Assessment of Self-Mutilation (FASM) to assess how all the participants took part in
