Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2005
Page 1. http://csx.sagepub.com/ Journal of Reviews Contemporary Sociology: A http://csx.sagepub.c... more Page 1. http://csx.sagepub.com/ Journal of Reviews Contemporary Sociology: A http://csx.sagepub.com/content/34/2/139.citation The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/009430610503400215 2005 34: 139 ...
This study proposes a psychometric validation of the Italian version of the Mentalized Affectivit... more This study proposes a psychometric validation of the Italian version of the Mentalized Affectivity Scale (MAS) developed by Greenberg and colleagues in 2017. The mentalized affectivity construct integrates mentalization ability in the process of emotional regulation. An adult sample (N = 506) completed the 60-items MAS online version. In contrast to the three-factor structure of the original version, the Italian context confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses with splitted sample (CFA = 258; EFA = 248) revealed a five-factor structure. The hierarchically structured MAS factors are: Emotional Processing (being able to process emotion in situations); Expressing Emotions (talking and knowing emotions); Identifying Emotions (awareness of emotions); Control Processing (to control emotional reactions and expression), and Autobiographical Memory (related to childhood experiences). We also verified the convergent validity and reliability of the Italian version of the MAS by correlating...
Here we introduce a new assessment of emotion regulation called the Mentalized Affectivity Scale ... more Here we introduce a new assessment of emotion regulation called the Mentalized Affectivity Scale (MAS). A large online adult sample (N = 2,840) completed the 60-item MAS along with a battery of psychological measures. Results revealed a robust three-component structure underlying mentalized affectivity, which we labeled: Identifying emotions (the ability to identify emotions and to reflect on the factors that influence them); Processing emotions (the ability to modulate and distinguish complex emotions); and Expressing emotions (the tendency to express emotions outwardly or inwardly). Hierarchical modeling suggested that Processing emotions delineates from Identifying them, and Expressing emotions delineates from Processing them. We then showed how these components are associated with personality traits, well-being, trauma, and 18 different psychological disorders (including mood, neurological, and personality disorders). Notably, those with anxiety, mood, and personality disorders ...
ABSTRACT This article focuses on a particular kind of affect regulation, mentalized affectivity, ... more ABSTRACT This article focuses on a particular kind of affect regulation, mentalized affectivity, which entails revaluing, not just modulating, affects. The author argues that affectivity challenges us to comprehend the impact of our representational world on affective experience and that this process plays a crucial role in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Three elements of affectivity are delineated and divided into basic and complex forms: identifying affects (naming, distinguishing), processing affects (modulating, refining), and expressing affects (outwardly, inwardly/communicating). Case material is introduced to describe how affects manifest themselves clinically: The author distinguishes between what he terms strong and aporetic feelings, and he shows how affectivity works. Next he locates the concept of affectivity historically, emphasizing a debt to thinkers such as Jacobson, Loewald, Sandler, and Kernberg, who have sought to integrate ego psychology and object relations theory. Finally, he raises some general questions about affect regulation based on what he has proposed about affectivity. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
The term “mentalized affectivity” describes the ability to reflect on, process, modulate and expr... more The term “mentalized affectivity” describes the ability to reflect on, process, modulate and express emotions through the prism of autobiographical memory. It represents a bridge concept that integrates previous contributions on emotion regulation and mentalization, offering a quite unique perspective on affective and reflective functioning. The overall aim of this study was to validate the Brief-Mentalized Affectivity Scale (B-MAS), a 12-items self-report instrument, on the Italian population. We tested both the factorial validity of the instrument and its reliability and convergent validity with other similar constructs. We also obtained normative data for the Italian population, broken down by gender. Participants (n = 389) were recruited through snowball sampling. Data was collected through an online survey. Besides the Brief-Mentalized Affectivity Scale, the survey included an ad hoc schedule with questions investigating socio-demographic characteristics, and self-report measur...
Donnet's style is at times condensed and elliptic. One has to read and reread the text. ''Il faut... more Donnet's style is at times condensed and elliptic. One has to read and reread the text. ''Il faut le faire travailler''. 2 Yet at the same time this book is evocative and thought-provoking. Although almost no clinical material is presented one can identify the analyst at work. Donnet suggests that clinical reports retrace the path of the patient's free associations and the work of the analyst's countertransference; this is what I felt this book gives us access to, which is more than the words and ideas it contains. As one reads, one participates in the very activity of association and thinking of this great analyst.
ABSTRACT This commentary offers a challenge to Norcross and Karpiak's (2012) claim that t... more ABSTRACT This commentary offers a challenge to Norcross and Karpiak's (2012) claim that the psychodynamic orientation is on the decline in clinical psychology, based upon the data that they present. I urge clinical psychologists/scientists to recognize that there are psychodynamic researchers who have embraced evidence-based philosophy and practices; I advocate a rapprochement between Division 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology) and 39 (Psychoanalysis), and I propose a defense of pluralism in which all clinical psychologists recognize the obligation to engage other orientations and points of view that differ from their own and to do so respectfully.
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2005
Page 1. http://csx.sagepub.com/ Journal of Reviews Contemporary Sociology: A http://csx.sagepub.c... more Page 1. http://csx.sagepub.com/ Journal of Reviews Contemporary Sociology: A http://csx.sagepub.com/content/34/2/139.citation The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/009430610503400215 2005 34: 139 ...
This study proposes a psychometric validation of the Italian version of the Mentalized Affectivit... more This study proposes a psychometric validation of the Italian version of the Mentalized Affectivity Scale (MAS) developed by Greenberg and colleagues in 2017. The mentalized affectivity construct integrates mentalization ability in the process of emotional regulation. An adult sample (N = 506) completed the 60-items MAS online version. In contrast to the three-factor structure of the original version, the Italian context confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses with splitted sample (CFA = 258; EFA = 248) revealed a five-factor structure. The hierarchically structured MAS factors are: Emotional Processing (being able to process emotion in situations); Expressing Emotions (talking and knowing emotions); Identifying Emotions (awareness of emotions); Control Processing (to control emotional reactions and expression), and Autobiographical Memory (related to childhood experiences). We also verified the convergent validity and reliability of the Italian version of the MAS by correlating...
Here we introduce a new assessment of emotion regulation called the Mentalized Affectivity Scale ... more Here we introduce a new assessment of emotion regulation called the Mentalized Affectivity Scale (MAS). A large online adult sample (N = 2,840) completed the 60-item MAS along with a battery of psychological measures. Results revealed a robust three-component structure underlying mentalized affectivity, which we labeled: Identifying emotions (the ability to identify emotions and to reflect on the factors that influence them); Processing emotions (the ability to modulate and distinguish complex emotions); and Expressing emotions (the tendency to express emotions outwardly or inwardly). Hierarchical modeling suggested that Processing emotions delineates from Identifying them, and Expressing emotions delineates from Processing them. We then showed how these components are associated with personality traits, well-being, trauma, and 18 different psychological disorders (including mood, neurological, and personality disorders). Notably, those with anxiety, mood, and personality disorders ...
ABSTRACT This article focuses on a particular kind of affect regulation, mentalized affectivity, ... more ABSTRACT This article focuses on a particular kind of affect regulation, mentalized affectivity, which entails revaluing, not just modulating, affects. The author argues that affectivity challenges us to comprehend the impact of our representational world on affective experience and that this process plays a crucial role in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Three elements of affectivity are delineated and divided into basic and complex forms: identifying affects (naming, distinguishing), processing affects (modulating, refining), and expressing affects (outwardly, inwardly/communicating). Case material is introduced to describe how affects manifest themselves clinically: The author distinguishes between what he terms strong and aporetic feelings, and he shows how affectivity works. Next he locates the concept of affectivity historically, emphasizing a debt to thinkers such as Jacobson, Loewald, Sandler, and Kernberg, who have sought to integrate ego psychology and object relations theory. Finally, he raises some general questions about affect regulation based on what he has proposed about affectivity. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
The term “mentalized affectivity” describes the ability to reflect on, process, modulate and expr... more The term “mentalized affectivity” describes the ability to reflect on, process, modulate and express emotions through the prism of autobiographical memory. It represents a bridge concept that integrates previous contributions on emotion regulation and mentalization, offering a quite unique perspective on affective and reflective functioning. The overall aim of this study was to validate the Brief-Mentalized Affectivity Scale (B-MAS), a 12-items self-report instrument, on the Italian population. We tested both the factorial validity of the instrument and its reliability and convergent validity with other similar constructs. We also obtained normative data for the Italian population, broken down by gender. Participants (n = 389) were recruited through snowball sampling. Data was collected through an online survey. Besides the Brief-Mentalized Affectivity Scale, the survey included an ad hoc schedule with questions investigating socio-demographic characteristics, and self-report measur...
Donnet's style is at times condensed and elliptic. One has to read and reread the text. ''Il faut... more Donnet's style is at times condensed and elliptic. One has to read and reread the text. ''Il faut le faire travailler''. 2 Yet at the same time this book is evocative and thought-provoking. Although almost no clinical material is presented one can identify the analyst at work. Donnet suggests that clinical reports retrace the path of the patient's free associations and the work of the analyst's countertransference; this is what I felt this book gives us access to, which is more than the words and ideas it contains. As one reads, one participates in the very activity of association and thinking of this great analyst.
ABSTRACT This commentary offers a challenge to Norcross and Karpiak's (2012) claim that t... more ABSTRACT This commentary offers a challenge to Norcross and Karpiak's (2012) claim that the psychodynamic orientation is on the decline in clinical psychology, based upon the data that they present. I urge clinical psychologists/scientists to recognize that there are psychodynamic researchers who have embraced evidence-based philosophy and practices; I advocate a rapprochement between Division 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology) and 39 (Psychoanalysis), and I propose a defense of pluralism in which all clinical psychologists recognize the obligation to engage other orientations and points of view that differ from their own and to do so respectfully.
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