ArticleFrontiers in psychology2023
Measuring mentalizing in youth: further validation of the reflective functioning questionnaire for youth (RFQY-13).
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- Mapping the Adolescent Mind: Profiles of Reflective Functioning and Epistemic Trust in Adolescent Psychopathology.Journal of adolescence · 2026Article
- The intergenerational transmission of reflective functioning in adoptive families: A prospective study from pre-adoption to early adolescence.Infant mental health journal · 2026Article
- Mentalizing on the edge: borderline traits and their association with real-time self-reflection - an ecological momentary assessment study.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2026Article
- Mentalization and Emotion Regulation in Adolescent Attachment: A Scoping Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Pathology of the self: a network analysis of personality functioning, narcissistic vulnerability, mentalizing, and epistemic trust across trauma profiles.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2026Article
- Validation of the Three-Factor Reflective Functioning Questionnaire for Youth in a Chinese Adolescent Sample.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2024Article
- Different epistemic stances for different traumatic experiences: implications for mentalization.Research in psychotherapy (Milano) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Objective: This study investigated the psychometric properties, including the factor structure, validity, and reliability of the 13-item Reflective Function Questionnaire for Youth (RFQY-13), using a new scoring system. Method: A community sample of 414 adolescents and a clinical sample of 83 adolescents (aged 12-21) completed the RFQY, the Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children (BPFS-C), the Beck Youth Inventories (BYI), the Child Behavior Checklist-Youth Self Report (CBCL-YSR) and the Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition (MASC). Results: Using the new scoring system, our results demonstrated configural and metric invariance, as well as adequate reliability and validity across both samples for the two-factor structure of the RFQY. The Uncertainty subscale also showed strong associations with psychopathology. Discussion: The findings show that the RFQY-13, when used with the new coding system, has good psychometric properties and is a reliable measure of mentalizing for adolescents and young adults. We discuss clinical implications, limitations and future directions.
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