Personality and mentalization: A latent profile analysis of mentalizing problematics in adult patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between patients' mentalizing problematics and their personality; specifically, it aimed to identify clusters of individuals characterized by specific patterns of mentalizing imbalances and to analyze the relationship between these and diagnosis of personality disorder (PD), nonmentalizing modes, emotion dysregulation, and interpersonal reactivity.

Methods

Four hundred therapeutic dyads were recruited. A part of these (n = 183) only completed clinician-report measures, Mentalization Imbalances Scale, and Modes of Mentalization Scale, while others (n = 217) also completed patients' self-report measures, which were Reflective Functioning Questionnaire, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, and Interperson

SUBMITTER: Gagliardini G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10087971 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature