Adolescence in lockdown: The protective role of mentalizing and epistemic trust.

Autor: Locati F; Department of Humanities, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy., Milesi A; Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy., Conte F; Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy., Campbell C; Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London and Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, London, UK., Fonagy P; Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London and Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, London, UK., Ensink K; Faculté des sciences sociales, Université Laval, Québec, Canada., Parolin L; Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of clinical psychology [J Clin Psychol] 2023 Apr; Vol. 79 (4), pp. 969-984. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Oct 18.
DOI: 10.1002/jclp.23453
Abstrakt: Objective: Mentalizing is the ability to interpret one's own and others' behavior as driven by intentional mental states. Epistemic trust (openness to interpersonally transmitted information) has been associated with mentalizing. Balanced mentalizing abilities allow people to cope with external and internal stressors. Studies show that social isolation imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic was highly stressful for most people, especially for adolescents. Here we examine whether mentalizing and epistemic trust were protective factors in relation to emotional distress during the lockdown.
Method: A total of 131 nonclinical adolescents, aged between 12 and 18 years, were evaluated during the lockdown using the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire for Youth, Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment, Perceived Stress Scale, and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale.
Results: Results from network analysis showed that epistemic trust and mentalizing were negatively associated with perceived stress and emotion dysregulation. Epistemic trust in fathers was associated with level of perceived stress, and epistemic trust in mothers with emotion dysregulation.
Conclusion: These findings suggest that epistemic trust and the capacity to mentalize were low in adolescents during lockdown, and this was associated with high levels of stress. However, robust levels of epistemic trust and mentalizing may have acted as protective factors that buffered individuals from the risk of emotional dysregulation during the lockdown.
(© 2022 The Authors. Journal of Clinical Psychology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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