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Preliminary data on the psychometric proprieties of the italian version of the reflective functioning questionnaire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

P. Velotti ,
G. Rogier ,
S. Beomonte Zobel ,
E. Ciavolino ,
S. Beyer  and
P. Fonagy
P. Velotti
Affiliation:
Dynamical And Clinical Psychology, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
G. Rogier
Affiliation:
Dynamical And Clinical Psychology, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
S. Beomonte Zobel*
Affiliation:
Dynamical And Clinical Psychology, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
E. Ciavolino
Affiliation:
Dipartimento Di Storia, Società E Studi Sull`uomo, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy
S. Beyer
Affiliation:
Dynamical And Clinical Psychology, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
P. Fonagy
Affiliation:
Division Of Psychology And Language Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Assessing mentalizing abilities is a complex issue. Only recently an instrument assessing mentalizing capacity as a whole, the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ), has been developed.

Objectives

To reach the purpose of our study, we investigated the psychometric proprieties of the Italian version of the RFQ.

Methods

The study was conducted on a sample including a group of violent offenders and a group of community participants. All subjects fulfilled the RFQ, the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5) and the Aggression Questionnaire (AQ).

Results

The theoretical model was defined and analysed by using Partial Least Squares–Path Modelling with high-order construct definition. Data showed good psychometric proprieties of the Italian version of the RFQ. Also, specific patterns of correlations were identified between the RFQ subscales and both PID-5 and AQ scores. Offenders significantly differed from controls only in relation to one subscale of the RFQ.

Conclusions

Data supported the factorial structure of the RFQ found in the original validation study. Results also support the existence of a second-order variable, mentalizing, resulting from the convergence of hypomentalizing and hypermentalizing.

Keywords

RFQitalian validationReflective functioningpsychometric properties
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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S509
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