Abstract
Objective: To develop and validate the Brief-Mentalized Affectivity scale (B-MAS), a shorter version of the Mentalized Affectivity Scale (MAS). Methods: In Study 1 (N = 978), participants from Amazon's Mechanical Turk were administered a battery of questionnaires including the B-MAS and traditional emotion regulation measures. In Study 2 (N = 230), clients from a community clinic completed a separate battery of measures, including the B-MAS, and personality and emotion regulation measures. Results: There were four main findings: (1) the B-MAS is a psychometrically robust measure of emotion regulation and mentalization; (2) scores on the B-MAS are highly predictive of many clinical diagnoses; (3) scores on the B-MAS are just as or more predictive of wellbeing than traditional emotional regulation measures; and (4) as observed in an urban clinic with a diverse population, the B-MAS is useful clinically, especially because of its brevity. Conclusion: The B-MAS contributes to the expanding scope of research on emotion regulation and has valuable clinical applications.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2638-2652 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Journal of Clinical Psychology |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue number | 11 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 2021 |
Bibliographical note
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Funding
DMG was funded in part by the Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program. This study was supported in part by a scholarship from the Department of Psychology at the City College of New York. We are grateful to Gülşen Kaynar, İpek Şenkal, Nağme Kasmer, I Wang, Michael Perez Sosa, and George Cedeno for important discussions on this topic and data preparation.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Department of Psychology at the City College of New York |
Keywords
- emotion regulation
- mentalization
- mentalized affectivity
- psychometrics
- wellbeing
