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Open Access
Peer-reviewed
- Peter Fonagy ,
- Patrick Luyten,
- Alesia Moulton-Perkins,
- Ya-Wen Lee,
- Fiona Warren,
- Susan Howard,
- Rosanna Ghinai,
- Pasco Fearon,
- Benedicte Lowyck
- Peter Fonagy,
- Patrick Luyten,
- Alesia Moulton-Perkins,
- Ya-Wen Lee,
- Fiona Warren,
- Susan Howard,
- Rosanna Ghinai,
- Pasco Fearon,
- Benedicte Lowyck
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Abstract
Reflective functioning or mentalizing is the capacity to interpret both the self and others in terms of internal mental states such as feelings, wishes, goals, desires, and attitudes. This paper is part of a series of papers outlining the development and psychometric features of a new self-report measure, the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ), designed to provide an easy to administer self-report measure of mentalizing. We describe the development and initial validation of the RFQ in three studies. Study 1 focuses on the development of the RFQ, its factor structure and construct validity in a sample of patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Eating Disorder (ED) (n = 108) and normal controls (n = 295). Study 2 aims to replicate these findings in a fresh sample of 129 patients with personality disorder and 281 normal controls. Study 3
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The Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ)
General information
Mentalizing, or reflective functioning, refers to our capacity to understand ourselves and others in terms of intentional mental states, such as feelings, desires, wishes, goals and attitudes. Mentalizing is a quintessential human capacity that is needed to be able to successfully navigate the social world. Impairments in this capacity have been shown to be implicated in a wide variety of disorders and behavioural problems, ranging from psychosis to personality disorders, mood and anxiety disorders, eating disorders, and conduct disorder [1].
There is increasing evidence to support the effectiveness of intervention programmes that have been explicitly inspired by the mentalizing approach, and a focus on improving mentalizing may be a common factor in all effective psychosocial interventions [2].
The Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ) was developed as a brief, easy-to-administer screening measure of reflective functioning [3]. It is not aimed at capturing the different dimensions of mentalizing (for a detailed description of these dimensions, see [4]), nor is it aimed at capturing the process of mentalizing as it unfolds in social interactions. A wide range of measures are currently available that