期刊
SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS
卷 33, 期 5, 页码 777-791出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2010.01322.x
关键词
self-harm; youth; mental health; discourse analysis
资金
- Economic and Social Research Council [RES-000-22-1239] Funding Source: researchfish
This article draws from focus groups and interviews investigating how young people talk about self-harm. Some of the research participants had personal experience of self-harm but this was not a prerequisite for their inclusion in the study. Thematic coding was used initially to organise and give an overview of the data, but the data were subsequently analysed using a discourse analytic approach. The article focuses on the young people's constructions of deliberate self-harm such as 'cutting'. Throughout the focus groups and interviews, a dichotomy was set up by the young people between authentic, private self-harm which is rooted in real distress (and warrants a sympathetic response) and public, self-indulgent attempts to seek attention. This dualistic construction is discussed in some detail and located in various socio-cultural contexts. It is argued that the dualism illustrates contemporary ambivalence about mental health and youth.
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