Department of Social Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon.
J Pers Assess. 2021 Jul-Aug;103(4):498-508. doi: 10.1080/00223891.2020.1769114. Epub 2020 Jun 4.
Mentalizing is defined as one's capacity to think in terms of mental states underlying one's own and others' behaviors. It has been posited to develop within the context of a secure attachment relationship and has been linked to a myriad of psychological adjustment variables. Given the scarcity of research on mentalizing in Lebanon, this study aimed to investigate mentalizing in a sample of 293 Lebanese undergraduate students using a novel tool, the Mental State Task (MST). Higher mentalizing scores were found to be positively correlated with self-esteem, neurotic defenses, authenticity and adaptive emotion regulation strategies, as well as negatively correlated with psychological symptomatology. This study also provided descriptions of the six mental states measured by the MST continuum based on their correlations with related constructs. Findings diverge with the literature in relation to the association between defense styles and MST scores, which were posited to reflect cultural specificities of this sample.
心理化是指一个人根据自己和他人行为背后的心理状态进行思考的能力。它被认为是在安全依恋关系的背景下发展起来的，与许多心理调整变量有关。鉴于黎巴嫩在心理化研究方面的匮乏，本研究旨在使用一种新工具——心理状态任务（MST），对 293 名黎巴嫩大学生样本进行心理化研究。研究发现，较高的心理化得分与自尊、神经质防御、真实性和适应性情绪调节策略呈正相关，与心理症状呈负相关。本研究还根据与相关结构的相关性，描述了 MST 连续体测量的六种心理状态。研究结果与文献中关于防御风格与 MST 得分之间关联的结果存在差异，这被认为反映了该样本的文化特殊性。
