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Emotion dysregulation as mediator between mentalizing capacity and affective states: An exploratory study
Saeed Ghanbari1, Ahmad Asgarizadeh1, Elahe Vahidi1
1Faculty of Education and Psychology Shahid Beheshti University Tehran Iran.
PCN Reports : Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
|June 13, 2024
Summary
Poor mentalizing capacity contributes to emotional difficulties. Emotion dysregulation mediates the link between mentalizing capacity and affective states, leading to negative emotions and reduced positive emotions.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Clinical Psychology
- Social Psychology
Background:
- Mentalizing capacity is crucial for emotional regulation.
- Emotion dysregulation is linked to various affective states.
- Understanding the interplay between mentalizing, emotion regulation, and affect is important for mental health.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the relationship between mentalizing capacity and affective states.
- To examine the mediating role of emotion dysregulation in this relationship.
- To explore how self- and other-related mentalizing influence affect.
Main Methods:
- Online self-report measures administered to 445 nonclinical Iranian adults.
- Utilized the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), Mentalization Scale (MentS), and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS).
- Employed correlational analyses and structural equation modeling.
Main Results:
- Self- and other-related mentalizing were inversely associated with emotion dysregulation.
- Emotion dysregulation mediated the relationship between mentalizing and affective states.
- Emotion dysregulation predicted higher negative and lower positive affects; motivation to mentalize had a limited direct effect.
Conclusions:
- Mentalizing capacity indirectly influences affective states via emotion dysregulation.
- Mentalizing incapacity may contribute to the development of affective difficulties.
- The findings highlight emotion dysregulation as a key mechanism linking mentalizing and affect.
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