Martin-Gagnon, Gabriel;
Fonagy, Peter;
Bégin, Michaël;
Normandin, Lina;
Ensink, Karin;
(2023)
Measuring Mentalizing in Youth: Further Validation of the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire for Youth (RFQY-13).
Frontiers in Psychology
, 14
, Article 1260281. 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1260281.
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Abstract
Objective: This study investigated the psychometric properties, including the factor structure, validity, and reliability of the 13-item Reflective Function Questionnaire for Youth (RFQY-13), using a new scoring system. // Method: A community sample of 414 adolescents and a clinical sample of 83 adolescents (aged 12-21) completed the RFQY, the Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children (BPFS-C), the Beck Youth Inventories (BYI), the Child Behavior Checklist-Youth Self Report (CBCL-YSR) and the Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition (MASC). // Results : Using the new scoring system, our results demonstrated configural and metric invariance, as well as adequate reliability and validity across both samples for the two-factor structure of the RFQY. The Uncertainty subscale showed strong associations with psychopathology and differentiated between clinical and community samples, with the clinical sample reporting significantly higher Uncertainty. // Discussion : The findings show that the RFQY-13, when used with the new coding system, has good psychometric properties and is a reliable measure of mentalizing for adolescents and young adults. We discuss clinical implications, limitations and future directions.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Measuring Mentalizing in Youth: Further Validation of the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire for Youth (RFQY-13) |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1260281 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1260281 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2023 Martin-Gagnon, Fonagy, Bégin, Normandin and Ensink. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
| Keywords: | Mentalizing, RF, adolescent, BPD, anxiety, depression, assessment |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10178255 |
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