There remains some controversy regarding whether NSSI can become an addictive behaviour despite many youths self reporting this anecdotally and several studies providing evidence of addictive features.
Just as they do with SAT and ACT scores, students will self-report this information, but colleges must still rely on the official reports that come directly from institutions, not those received from the students themselves.
We can only postulate that this may be a function of a lower likelihood of treatment seeking or measurement error (for instance, those of 'Hispanic/Latino' descent may be less likely to self-report this as a personal identity).
As falls history was based on self-report, this increased the likelihood that the number of falls was underreported.
26% of private medical college students self-report this behaviour as compared to 42% of public medical college students.
Similar to lower Cronbach's alphas in adolescent self-report, this decreased variation explained could also reflect differences in scale performance by parent proxy and adolescent self-report and warrant further study.
Furthermore, the response rate for participating in biochemical validation is far less than self-report; this situation is not only in Hong Kong but also has been reported in elsewhere [ 29].
Moreover, it is also improbable that the differences observed were a consequence of discrepancies in nCPAP compliance because, based on subject self-report, this measure was similar between groups.
Because occupational PAH exposure was based on expert assessment rather than self-report, this may be less of a problem for our study (Jackson et al. 2004; Rocheleau et al. 2011).
87% of students at a private medical college believe that cheating in an examination is wrong as compared to 66% of public medical college students and 24% self-report this behaviour in the former group as compared to 41% in the latter.
Using self-reports, this scale assesses incidences of psychological and physical aggression, sexual coercion, and physical injuries.
