Department of Psychology, CRP-CPO, University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, UR, 7273, France.
Department of Mental Health and Psychiatry, Specialized Facility in Behavioral Addiction ReConnecte, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
BMC Psychol. 2024 Jun 12;12(1):344. doi: 10.1186/s40359-024-01837-z.
Mentalizing refers to the ability to understand one's own and others' mental states. Mentalizing is considered a key component of social cognition and healthy personality development. A multinational assessment tools able to appraise the multidimensional and multifaceted aspects of this complex construct are needed.
The present study had two aims: (a) validate an English version of the Multidimensional Mentalizing Questionnaire (MMQ, 33 items) which was designed to assess mentalizing based on an integrated and multilevel model of mentalizing; (b) explore the correlational relationships between the six dimensions of the MMQ and a set of sociodemographic, psycho-cognitive, mental health, and socio-functional variables.
Overall, 1823 individuals (age: 19-76 years old [M = 45; SD = 16]; sex: male = 48.51%, female = 50.57%, non-binary = 0.9%) participated in an online survey. While the participants came from 77 different countries, most of them were residents in UK and USA (95%). Data analytics include confirmatory factorial analysis and Pearson correlations.
The CFA results validated the factorial structure of a 28-items MMQ-English version, with acceptable goodness of fit indices. Regarding the psychometric properties, the MMQ-English version showed good internal reliability and significant positive correlation with another scale designed to assess an analogue construct showing a fair convergent validity. The findings indicated that males, individuals with lower levels of education, lower socio-economic status, depressed, and with a higher score of loneliness are significantly more likely to report poor mentalizing compared with females, individuals with higher education level, greater SES, happier, and with lower scores of loneliness.
The present study validated the English version of the MMQ.
心理化是指理解自己和他人心理状态的能力。心理化被认为是社会认知和健康人格发展的关键组成部分。需要一种能够评估这种复杂结构多维和多方面的多语言评估工具。
本研究有两个目的：（a）验证多维心理化问卷（MMQ，33 个项目）的英文版本，该问卷旨在基于心理化的综合和多层次模型评估心理化；（b）探讨 MMQ 的六个维度与一系列社会人口学、心理认知、心理健康和社会功能变量之间的相关性。
共有 1823 人（年龄：19-76 岁[M=45；SD=16]；性别：男性=48.51%，女性=50.57%，非二进制=0.9%）参加了在线调查。虽然参与者来自 77 个不同的国家，但他们中的大多数人是英国和美国的居民（95%）。数据分析包括验证性因素分析和 Pearson 相关分析。
CFA 结果验证了 28 项 MMQ-英文版本的因子结构，具有可接受的拟合度指数。关于心理测量特性，MMQ-英文版本显示出良好的内部可靠性，与另一个旨在评估类似结构的量表呈显著正相关，表明具有良好的收敛效度。研究结果表明，男性、受教育程度较低、社会经济地位较低、抑郁、孤独感较高的个体与女性、受教育程度较高、社会经济地位较高、快乐、孤独感较低的个体相比，更有可能报告心理化能力较差。
本研究验证了 MMQ 的英文版本。
