To our knowledge, no empirical studies have ever been conducted to investigate the impact of the preoccupied state of mind
on mentalization ability.
Data from 104 males and females with a mean age of 16.4 years were collected
on mentalization capacities using the Reflective Functioning Scale on the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI).
Not exact matches
All thought and all that happens
on this earth were finally related to God and redeemed by Christ, but with the emergence of the industrial world, mechanistic compart -
mentalization separated interconnected parts of society and set religion in a corner.
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.
Effects of
mentalization on reactive aggression were fully accounted for by its shared variance with proactive aggression.
The construct hypothesis based
on attachment theory and
mentalization research, expected a positive correlation between the parental RF level and adult attachment.
On the basis of this hypothesis, emotional regulation, rather than secure attachment, would allow
mentalization.
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On the origins of reflective functioning,» in
Mentalization, ed.
In this study, we focused
on reflective functioning (RF), a definite operationalization of
mentalization that was suggested by Fonagy and Target (1997) in the context of the attachment theory.
Previous studies, which focused primarily
on preschool aged children, mostly used measures of different components of child
mentalization, such as ToM, or emotional understanding in impersonal contexts.