Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg, Fakultät III für Sonderpädagogik; Abteilung emotional-soziale Entwicklung, Psychologie und Diagnostik, Ludwigsburg, Germany.
Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, London, UK; 4919University College London, London, UK.
Psychol Rep. 2022 Apr;125(2):742-762. doi: 10.1177/0033294121994846. Epub 2021 Feb 10.
The clinical concept of mentalizing has recently been extended into non-clinical contexts. In particular, the protective function of robust mentalizing as a processing capacity of interpersonal and intrapsychic events has become a focus of consideration. Theoretical approaches hypothesize that mentalizing may allow for an adequate self-awareness in the face of aversive experiences such as stress, leading to a reappraisal of these experiences and therefore enables the use of adaptive coping behaviors.
The study aimed to investigate the association between coping behavior, mentalizing and experiences of stress.
534 healthy adults completed the German-language Stress Processing Questionnaire (SVF), the Mentalization Questionnaire (MZQ), and a short scale of the Trierer Inventory of Chronic Stress (TICS) in a cross-sectional research design.
Correlational analyses suggested associations between coping and mentalizing. Furthermore, MZQ scores predicted both positive and negative coping behavior. The relationship between stress and both negative and positive coping was mediated by mentalizing capacity.
Findings confirm the hypothesis that mentalizing may represent a coping resource within a resilience framework. An implementation of the concept in preventive mental health interventions is discussed.
心理理论的临床概念最近已经扩展到非临床领域。特别是，强大的心理理论作为人际和内心事件的处理能力的保护功能已成为关注的焦点。理论方法假设，心理理论可以使人在面对压力等不愉快的体验时保持适当的自我意识，从而重新评估这些体验，因此能够使用适应性应对行为。
本研究旨在探讨应对行为、心理理论和压力体验之间的关系。
采用横断面研究设计，534 名健康成年人完成了德语应激处理问卷（SVF）、心理理论问卷（MZQ）和特里尔慢性应激量表（TICS）的简短量表。
相关分析表明应对与心理理论之间存在关联。此外，MZQ 得分预测了积极和消极的应对行为。心理理论能力中介了压力与消极和积极应对之间的关系。
研究结果证实了心理理论可能代表韧性框架内的一种应对资源的假设。讨论了将这一概念应用于预防性心理健康干预的问题。
