ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
Reflective Functioning in Children and Adolescents With and Without an Anxiety Disorder.
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- Executive functioning in adolescents with internalizing disorders: a systematic review.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- The Dual Facets of Emotion Perception in Adult Attachment Representations: A Systematic Review on Impathy and Empathy.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Mentalization Profiles of Adolescents with Internalizing Disorders: Domain-specific Differences Compared to Typically Developing Adolescents.Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2026Article
- The interplay of mentalization and epistemic trust: a protective mechanism against emotional dysregulation in adolescent internalizing symptoms.Research in psychotherapy (Milano) · 2023Article
- Mentalization in Typically and Atypically Developing Iranian Children and Its Associations with Age, Sex, and Externalizing/Internalizing Symptoms.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Adolescent mentalizing and childhood emotional abuse: implications for depression, anxiety, and borderline personality disorder features.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Reflective functioning (RF), meaning the capacity to interpret mental states (intentions, emotions, thoughts, desires, and beliefs) underlying one's own and others' behaviors, may help understand the dysfunctional self-regulation associated with anxiety disorders. However, research on anxiety and RF in clinical samples is scarce. This study aimed to assess whether mothers' and youths' RF was associated with youths' (a) anxiety disorders and symptoms and (b) internalizing symptoms. Another goal was to explore whether RF predicted anxiety and internalizing symptoms beyond the more commonly established effect of attachment. Canadian children and adolescents aged between 8 and 16years, and their mothers were recruited in an outpatient psychiatric clinic (clinical group with a diagnosed anxiety disorder,
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