Somatic symptom disorders and related conditions (SSD-RC), along with depression and
anxiety disorders, are among the most common mental disorders. Disturbances in emotion …

Mentalizing is the human capacity to understand actions of others and one's own behavior in
terms of intentional mental states, such as feelings, wishes, goals and desires. Mentalizing is …

Abstract The Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ) is an 8-item self-report measure of
reflective functioning that is presumed to capture individual differences in hypo-and …

The psychometric properties of a new 28-item self-report measure of mentalization, the
Mentalization Scale (MentS), were examined in 2 studies: with a sample of employed adults …

Theoretical conceptualizations of mentalizing postulate a close relationship between the
ability to mentalize and the regulation of emotional states. The former is viewed as a key …

In clinical practice and research it is sometimes helpful to consider mentalizing as a unitary
construct (“This patient has severe impairments in mentalizing”), but in most cases more …

Background Mentalizing, making sense of mental states, is hypothesized to have a central
role in self-organization and social learning. Findings support this notion, but the extent of …

The Certainty About Mental States Questionnaire (CAMSQ) is a self-report measure of the
perceived capacity to understand mental states of the self and others (ie, mentalizing). In two …

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Researchers have proposed that emotion regulation can enhance or hinder socioaffective
and sociocognitive processes. However, an integration of the evidence is still lacking. The …