Development and validation of the Brief-Mentalized Affectivity Scale: Evidence from cross-sectional online data and an urban community-based mental health clinic

David M. Greenberg; Sasha Rudenstine; Rozita Alaluf; Elliot L. Jurist

doi:10.1002/jclp.23203

Development and validation of the Brief-Mentalized Affectivity Scale: Evidence from cross-sectional online data and an urban community-based mental health clinic

David M. Greenberg
, Sasha Rudenstine
, Rozita Alaluf
, Elliot L. Jurist

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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
Pages (from-to)	2638-2652
Number of pages	15
Journal	Journal of Clinical Psychology
Volume	77
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23203
State	Published - Nov 2021

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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.

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emotion regulation
mentalization
mentalized affectivity
psychometrics
wellbeing

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