Emotion dysregulation as mediator between mentalizing capacity and affective states: An exploratory study.
Saeed GhanbariAhmad AsgarizadehElahe VahidiParisa Sadat Seyed MousaviMaryam OmidghaemiPublished in: PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences (2023)
Mentalizing capacity was found to be indirectly linked with affective states through emotion dysregulation; hence, along with the previously substantiated association between emotion dysregulation and affective states and the partially established relationship between mentalizing capacity and affective states, we propose mentalizing incapacity to be at fault in the development of affective difficulties.