Sentences with phrase «between mentalization»

Also, the link between mentalization and maternal psychological control was partially mediated by negative emotion.

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Based on review of relevant literature, this study proposed a structural equation model where maternal ability for mentalization as measured by emotional regulation mediates the relationship between insecure adult attachment and negative emotion and psychological control.

The construct hypothesis based on attachment theory and mentalization research, expected a positive correlation between the parental RF level and adult attachment.

Furthermore, findings from the current study provide a fresh contribution to the research in this field, in that previous studies investigated the relationship between maternal and child mentalization comparing indeed different components (e.g., mind - mindedness, emotional understanding, ToM, mental - state talk) of the multifaceted construct of mentalization in mothers and in children.

However, it was more recently hypothesized (Fonagy et al., 2010) that maternal mentalization mediated the relationship between secure attachment and mentalization in children.

Recent studies (Rosso et al., 2015; Scopesi et al., 2015) confirmed the association between a dismissing model and impaired mentalization, as well as the association between the maternal ability to mentalize mixed emotions and mentalization in their children.

In other words, effective emotional regulation, promoted by a mother who is able to mentalize even in conditions of increased arousal as well as in the context of negative and ambivalent mental states, mediates the relationship between attachment security and mentalization ability.