Mental States Task (MST): Development, Validation, and Correlates of a Self‐Report Measure of Mentalization

Beaulieu-Pelletier, Geneviève; Bouchard, Marc–André; Philippe, Frédérick L.

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“…Recognition, awareness, and reflection on them are too painful and devastating. This causes an affective arousal that cannot be neutralized or processed in an appropriate manner (Beaulieu-Pelletier, Bouchard, & Philippe, 2013;Lecours & Bouchard, 2011). The result is emotional dysregulation that manifests in two possible ways.…”

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The regulative function of mentalization and mindfulness in borderline personality organization

Marszał¹,

Górska²

2015

Current Issues in Personality Psychology

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The aim of this study was to broaden the understanding of the emotional difficulties of borderline personality organization (BPO) by reference to a meta-ability named 'orientation on the internal world', here conceptualized as mentalization and mindfulness, in the framework of object relation theory. It was assumed that it is not mentalization "in itself", but mainly its regulatory function, that is important for BPO. participants and procedure The clinical and control groups (30 individuals each) were examined using The Mental States Task, The Difficulties of Emotion Regulation Scale and The Mindful Attention Awareness Scale. results Individuals with BPO functioned worse than the control group in terms of mentalization, mindfulness, and emotion regulation. The relationship between BPO and the meta-abilities was mediated by emotional dysregulation: total mediation was revealed for one mentalization dimension, and partial mediation was observed for mindfulness. conclusions Orientation on emotional experience and emotional dysregulation are not independent predictors of BPO, but they can be treated as levels in the hierarchical model. Mentalization determines and influences emotion regulation in BPO.

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The regulative function of mentalization and mindfulness in borderline personality organization

Marszał¹,

Górska²

2015

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“…(Beaulieu-Pelletier et al 2013 ) is a measure of mentalization that evaluates individual differences in relation to representation/elaboration and openness/modulation to one’s subjective experience. In order to evoke emotional arousal, the participants were primed with the 3BM card from the Thematic Apperception Test (Murray 1943 ).…”

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Emotion Dysregulation, Mentalization and Romantic Attachment in the Nonclinical Adolescent Female Sample

Marszał

Jańczak

2017

Curr Psychol

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The main goal of the current study is to verify the relationships between emotion dysregulation, mentalization, and romantic attachment in late adolescent girls (N = 120). Adolescence is a very dynamic and sensitive period, in which many changes occur in attachment and emotion regulation. The role of the primary attachment figures is gradually taken over by peers, and the beginnings of the development of romantic attachment are seen. In summary, this study was able to determine that the level of dysregulation of emotions in girls during late adolescence can be partially explained by mentalization and levels of anxiety (though not of avoidance) regarding a romantic partner, though attachment anxiety is more important for explaining emotion dysregulation than the level of mentalization. Only two aspects of emotion dysregulation show relationships with mentalization: nonacceptance of emotional responses and lack of emotional clarity. Adolescence is considered to be a critical period for interventions to protect against the onset of psychopathology. Confirmation of these relationships appears to be important for the design of therapeutic interventions. Our findings may suggest that attachment patterns, mentalization and emotion dysregulation may be good targets for therapeutic intervention in adolescence.

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“…Mentalization is a process of social cognition consisting in interpreting one's own and other people's behavior in terms of intentional mental states (e.g., needs, desires, feelings, beliefs, goals;Allen, Fonagy, & Bateman, 2008). As the process of focusing on mental states, mentalization is a very broad and multidimensional phenomenon (Brown, 2008;Choi-Kain & Gunderson, 2008) comprising several important components: representing mental states, tolerating them without the necessity of applying defensive measures, making inferences on their basis, and regulating the behavior stemming from these mental states (Beaulieu-Pelletier, Bouchard, & Philippe, 2013;Bouchard et al, 2008;Fonagy, Bateman, & Luyten, 2012). Currently, there are many conceptualizations of mentalization, not only referring to the processes of inference about mental states, but also stressing the regulatory role of mentalization (Carcione et al, 2010;Dimaggio et al, 2009;Dimaggio & Lysaker, 2015).…”

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Fluctuations of mentalization in the context of relational stimuli and representational contents

Górska¹

2018

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Mentalization fluctuations dependent on the interaction of the stimulus and representational contents were observed in the group with a predominance of sociotropic contents for interpersonal mentalization but not for selfreflective mentalizing. conclusions Mentalization must not be decontextualized; however, it is not the stimulus alone but the interaction of the stimulus with representational content that determines the fluctuations of mentalization. Individuals with a predominance of relatedness experience a decline in the capacity for interpersonal mentalization after imagining a significant other's unresponsiveness, which can be interpreted as resulting from a weakening of the function of differentiating.

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Mental States Task (MST): Development, Validation, and Correlates of a Self‐Report Measure of Mentalization

Abstract: Overall, findings provide convincing evidence of validity and reliability for the MST as an assessment tool of mental states. This innovative measure is likely to facilitate the clinical and empirical investigation of mentalization.

Cited by 20 publications

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The regulative function of mentalization and mindfulness in borderline personality organization

The regulative function of mentalization and mindfulness in borderline personality organization

Emotion Dysregulation, Mentalization and Romantic Attachment in the Nonclinical Adolescent Female Sample

Fluctuations of mentalization in the context of relational stimuli and representational contents

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