Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Psychotherapy and Pain Therapy, Asklepios Clinic, Hamburg, Germany.
Psychiatry Res. 2011 Dec 30;190(2-3):359-63. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2011.06.001. Epub 2011 Jun 25.
Though the popularity of body modification increases, psychosocial data about practitioners of body piercing and tattooing are few and controversial. Most studies used semi-structured interviews and relatively small sample sizes. The aim of this study was to explore psychosocial background information (motivation, sexual abuse) for body modification practises based on a sufficiently large sample. A core group of 432 subjects with body piercings and/or tattoos (readers of a specialised magazine on body modification; mean age: 28 years) was investigated in this study using a 55-item questionnaire. The mean number of body modifications (piercings and tattoos) was nine. Participants with a history of sexual abuse and high users with more than 10 body modifications differed from those without these features with respect to several motivations and consequences of body modification. Participants with sexual abuse often stated that they wanted to overcome certain experiences, and high users were characterised by the feeling of an addiction to continue body modification. Clinicians should include questions on body modifications and their motives in anamnestic schedules.
尽管身体修饰的流行程度不断增加，但关于身体穿刺和纹身从业者的社会心理数据却很少且存在争议。大多数研究使用半结构化访谈和相对较小的样本量。本研究的目的是基于足够大的样本量，探索身体修饰实践的社会心理背景信息（动机、性虐待）。本研究使用一份包含 55 个项目的问卷对一个有 432 名身体穿孔和/或纹身者（身体修饰专业杂志的读者；平均年龄：28 岁）的核心小组进行了调查。参与者平均进行了 9 次身体修饰（穿孔和纹身）。有性虐待史和进行 10 次以上身体修饰的高频使用者与没有这些特征的人在身体修饰的动机和后果方面存在差异。有性虐待史的参与者常常表示他们想克服某些经历，而高频使用者的特点是沉迷于继续进行身体修饰。临床医生应该在病史记录中包括关于身体修饰及其动机的问题。
