ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2021
Attachment, mentalizing, and eating disorder symptoms in adolescent psychiatric inpatients and healthy controls: a test of a mediational model.
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- Mentalizing deficits in borderline personality disorder related to axis I comorbidity: Clinical relevance.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Emotional reactivity and prosocial behaviour in response to witnessing social exclusion in adolescents with eating disorders and healthy controls.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Relation between increasing attachment security and weight gain: a clinical study of adolescents and their parents at an outpatient ward.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2023Article
- From symptoms to subjective and bodily experiences: the contribution of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2) to diagnosis and treatment monitoring in eating disorders.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2023Review
- Failures in Reflective Functioning, Dissociative Experiences, and Eating Disorder: a Study On a Sample of Italian Adolescents.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveResearch has supported a link between insecure attachment and eating disorders (EDs) in adolescents; however, mechanisms accounting for this association remain unclear. Growing evidence suggests impaired mentalizing as a potential mechanism. Yet, little is known about the relationship between mentalizing and ED symptoms or how it relates to the link between attachment and EDs in adolescents. This study examined mentalizing deficits in adolescents with ED symptoms relative to psychiatric and healthy controls and tested a mediational model, wherein mentalizing capacity mediates the relationship between attachment and ED symptoms.
methodInpatient adolescents with EDs and other pathology (n = 568) and healthy controls (n = 184) were administered the child attachment interview, the movie for the assessment of social cognition and the diagnostic interview schedule for children to assess attachment, mentalizing and ED symptoms, respectively.
resultsInpatients showed lower attachment security and more hypermentalizing than healthy adolescents. Hypermentalizing explained the association between insecure attachment and ED symptoms.
conclusionsThese findings suggest potential utility of targeting mentalizing in prevention and treatment of EDs in adolescents. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III, case-control analytic study.
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