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  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
8,336 Views
16 Pages

Development of a New Measure for Assessing Mentalizing: The Multidimensional Mentalizing Questionnaire (MMQ)

  • Alessio Gori,
  • Alessandro Arcioni,
  • Eleonora Topino,
  • Giuseppe Craparo and
  • Rosapia Lauro Grotto

15 April 2021

This research consists of two studies which aimed to: (1) evaluate the psychometric properties of a new self-report measure for the assessment of mentalizing, the Multidimensional Mentalizing Questionnaire (MMQ); and (2) investigate the ability of th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,843 Views
17 Pages

Mentalizing in Adolescents with Borderline Personality Disorder

  • Magdalena Uzar,
  • Monika Dmitrzak-Węglarz and
  • Agnieszka Słopień

18 October 2023

Mentalizing, recognized as the capacity to understand behaviors in the context of our own mental states and those of other people, is being researched more and more commonly in regard to various mental disorders. The research on mentalization focuses...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,889 Views
13 Pages

Mentalizing Emotions and Social Cognition in Bullies and Victims

  • Maria Luisa Pedditzi,
  • Roberta Fadda,
  • Tricia Striano Skoler and
  • Loredana Lucarelli

Mentalizing is the ability to represent mental states to navigate the social world. A reduced mentalizing ability is a risk factor for a variety of psychological issues. Several studies indicated deficits in social cognition in bullies and victims, s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,628 Views
16 Pages

Mentalization is a complex and multifaceted trans-theoretical and trans-diagnostic construct that has found increasing application in the clinical context. This research aimed at deepening the psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Mentalizi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,220 Views
11 Pages

Entrepreneurs’ Capacity for Mentalizing: Its Influence on Burnout Syndrome

  • Guadalupe Manzano-García,
  • Juan Carlos Ayala-Calvo and
  • Pascale Desrumaux

Burnout is a mental disorder that leads to difficulties for the entrepreneur in controlling his or her personal and professional life. The most common consequences of entrepreneurial burnout include the subject experiencing low motivation, low organi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,111 Views
12 Pages

Social mentalizing plays a crucial role in two-person interactions. Depending on the target of inference and the content being inferred, social mentalizing primarily exists in two forms: first-order mentalizing and second-order mentalizing. Our resea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,234 Views
9 Pages

A growing body of literature suggests a close link between olfaction and social expertise. The current study examines whether mentalizing skills are related to olfactory discrimination performance. In order to assess their mentalizing ability, 21 wom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,296 Views
14 Pages

Mentalizing, Resilience, and Mental Health Status among Healthcare Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study

  • Teodora Safiye,
  • Medo Gutić,
  • Jakša Dubljanin,
  • Tamara M. Stojanović,
  • Draško Dubljanin,
  • Andreja Kovačević,
  • Milena Zlatanović,
  • Denis H. Demirović,
  • Nemanja Nenezić and
  • Ardea Milidrag

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented stress on healthcare professionals worldwide. Since resilience and mentalizing capacity play very important preventive roles when it comes to mental health, the main goal of this study was to determine w...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
51 Citations
20,911 Views
20 Pages

Attachment, Mentalizing and Trauma: Then (1992) and Now (2022)

  • Peter Fonagy,
  • Chloe Campbell and
  • Patrick Luyten

This article reviews the current status of research on the relationship between attachment and trauma in developmental psychopathology. Beginning with a review of the major issues and the state-of-the-art in relation to current thinking in the field...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,910 Views
13 Pages

Resilience, Mentalizing and Burnout Syndrome among Healthcare Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Serbia

  • Teodora Safiye,
  • Branimir Vukčević,
  • Medo Gutić,
  • Ardea Milidrag,
  • Draško Dubljanin,
  • Jakša Dubljanin and
  • Branimir Radmanović

The aim of this study was to examine whether the capacity for mentalizing and resilience among healthcare workers (HCWs) explains the degree of burnout syndrome during the COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia. The research was conducted on a sample of 406 hea...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,583 Views
8 Pages

28 September 2022

Rehabilitation of severe impairment in motor function following stroke is very challenging. This is because one of the driving forces for recovery of motor function is tasks practice, something this category of patients cannot voluntarily perform. Ho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,808 Views
18 Pages

Parental Mentalizing during Middle Childhood: How Is the Adoption of a Reflective Stance Associated with Child’s Psychological Outcomes?

  • Simone Charpentier Mora,
  • Chiara Bastianoni,
  • Nina Koren-Karie,
  • Donatella Cavanna,
  • Marta Tironi and
  • Fabiola Bizzi

This exploratory cross-sectional study attempts to understand the mechanisms underlying the role of parental mentalizing in a child’s psychological functioning during middle childhood by using Parental Reflective Functioning (PRF) and Parental...

  • Study Protocol
  • Open Access
1 Citations
8,572 Views
16 Pages

The aim of the SAGA project is to support children’s social-emotional development and teacher mentalizing by promoting regular shared story-book reading with mentalizing dialogs in early childhood education and care (ECEC) centers. The theoreti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,803 Views
14 Pages

Multisession Anodal tDCS on the Right Temporo-Parietal Junction Improves Mentalizing Processes in Adults with Autistic Traits

  • Iván Padrón,
  • Enrique García-Marco,
  • Iván Moreno,
  • Agustina Birba,
  • Valentina Silvestri,
  • Inmaculada León,
  • Carlos Álvarez,
  • Joana López and
  • Manuel de Vega

28 December 2021

Persons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have impaired mentalizing skills. In this study, a group of persons with ASD traits (high-AQ scores) initially received sham tDCS before completing a pre-test in two mentalizing tasks: false belief and self...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,856 Views
14 Pages

Investigating Functioning Profile of Adolescents with Anorexia before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study on Mentalizing, Alexithymia, and Impulsiveness

  • Fabiola Bizzi,
  • Anna Riva,
  • Simone Charpentier Mora,
  • Marta Tironi,
  • Sofia Elena Sforza,
  • Lorenzo Maria Milani and
  • Renata Nacinovich

Anorexia nervosa (AN) usually emerges in adolescence when important changes occur in cognitive, emotional, and social processes. Mentalizing, alexithymia, and impulsiveness represent key dimensions for the understanding and interpretation of psycholo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,825 Views
16 Pages

Background: The COVID-19 outbreak caused severe changes in school activities over the past two years. Teachers underwent a re-planning of their teaching approaches, shifting from face-to-face teaching formats to remote ones. These challenges resulted...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,472 Views
16 Pages

22 May 2025

Background/Objectives: Patients with rheumatic diseases often experience pain-related depressive symptoms, potentially exacerbated by feelings of loneliness and social isolation. This study explores the role of mentalizing, i.e., the understanding of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,463 Views
14 Pages

Relationship between Mentalizing and Working Conditions in Health Care

  • Dagmar Steinmair,
  • Felix Richter and
  • Henriette Löffler-Stastka

Mentalizing describes the human ability to comprehend one’s own and others’ mental states and is seen as one of the core competencies of psychotherapists. Current research has emphasized the importance of both early dyadic attachment as w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,609 Views
12 Pages

Mental Health of Czech University Psychology Students: Negative Mental Health Attitudes, Mental Health Shame and Self-Compassion

  • Yasuhiro Kotera,
  • Denise Andrzejewski,
  • Jaroslava Dosedlova,
  • Elaina Taylor,
  • Ann-Marie Edwards and
  • Chris Blackmore

High rates of mental health problems are a growing concern in Czech higher education, negatively impacting students’ performance and wellbeing. Despite the serious nature of poor mental health, students often do not seek help because of negativ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,568 Views
14 Pages

8 September 2021

Aims: The purpose of this study was to verify how integration into the mental health community, a subculture of persons with mental illness, affects the integration into the non-mental health community. Thus, we analyzed the effect of community-based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,225 Views
13 Pages

Barriers to Mental Health Treatment in the Saudi National Mental Health Survey

  • Abdulaziz S. Alangari,
  • Sarah S. Knox,
  • Alfgeir L. Kristjansson,
  • Sijin Wen,
  • Kim E. Innes,
  • Lisa Bilal,
  • Abdulhameed Alhabeeb,
  • Abdullah S. Al-Subaie and
  • Yasmin A. Altwaijri

Objectives: To examine barriers to initiation and continuation of treatment among individuals with common mental disorders in the Saudi National Mental Health Survey (SNMHS). Methods: The SNMHS is a community-based epidemiological survey in a nationa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,886 Views
14 Pages

30 November 2022

Background: This study investigated college students’ eMental health literacy (eMHL), knowledge of common mental disorders and risk of being diagnosed with a mental health disorder and compared their knowledge of mental disorders and concurrent...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,043 Views
19 Pages

Mental Health and Mental Wellbeing Impact Assessment Frameworks—A Systematic Review

  • Johanna Cresswell-Smith,
  • Tapani Kauppinen,
  • Taina Laaksoharju,
  • Tuulia Rotko,
  • Pia Solin,
  • Jaana Suvisaari,
  • Kristian Wahlbeck and
  • Nina Tamminen

Mental health is largely shaped by the daily environments in which people live their lives, with positive components of mental health emphasising the importance of feeling good and functioning effectively. Promoting mental health relies on broad-base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
9,631 Views
16 Pages

Mental Health Literacy and Positive Mental Health in Adolescents: A Correlational Study

  • Joana Nobre,
  • António Calha,
  • Henrique Luis,
  • Ana Paula Oliveira,
  • Francisco Monteiro,
  • Carme Ferré-Grau and
  • Carlos Sequeira

This study aimed to assess adolescents′ Mental Health Literacy (MHL) level, Positive Mental Health (PMH) level, the association between sociodemographic variables and the MHL and PMH levels, and the relationship between adolescent′s MHL a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,642 Views
12 Pages

Efficiency of the Brain Network Is Associated with the Mental Workload with Developed Mental Schema

  • Heng Gu,
  • He Chen,
  • Qunli Yao,
  • Wenbo He,
  • Shaodi Wang,
  • Chao Yang,
  • Jiaxi Li,
  • Huapeng Liu,
  • Xiaoli Li and
  • Guanhao Liang
  • + 1 author

21 February 2023

The study of mental workload has attracted much interest in neuroergonomics, a frontier field of research. However, there appears no consensus on how to measure mental workload effectively because the mental workload is not only regulated by task dif...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1,624 Views
25 Pages

Mental Health and Mental Health Care in Iran: Addressing Social Inequalities

  • Saeid Zandi,
  • Farnoosh Oghani-Esfahani,
  • Fereshteh Ahmadi,
  • Roqayyeh Sabbaghi-Dehkalani and
  • Sharareh Akhavan

1 December 2025

Background/Objectives: Iran carries a significant burden of mental health disorders. This study aimed to describe the status of mental health and mental health care in Iran between 2012 and 2023, addressing inequalities and mapping existing challenge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
14,765 Views
15 Pages

Mental Health Literacy in Healthcare Students: An Expansion of the Mental Health Literacy Scale

  • Hsing-Jung Chao,
  • Yin-Ju Lien,
  • Yu-Chen Kao,
  • I-Chuan Tasi,
  • Hui-Shin Lin and
  • Yin-Yi Lien

Objective: Although the recently developed mental health literacy scale showed significant score differences between general population and mental health professionals, to this date there is no published scale intended to specifically assess mental h...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,548 Views
12 Pages

Positive Mental Health and Mental Health Literacy of Informal Caregivers: A Scoping Review

  • Carmen Andrade,
  • Márcio Tavares,
  • Hélia Soares,
  • Fábio Coelho and
  • Catarina Tomás

Positive mental health and mental health literacy are two main concepts to ensure an individual and social state of mental health and well-being. A scoping review of the scientific literature published in the field of health sciences was conducted to...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,426 Views
25 Pages

Occurrence of Mental Illness and Mental Health Risks among the Self-Employed: A Systematic Review

  • Kristina Willeke,
  • Patrick Janson,
  • Katharina Zink,
  • Carolin Stupp,
  • Sarah Kittel-Schneider,
  • Anne Berghöfer,
  • Thomas Ewert,
  • Ryan King,
  • Peter U. Heuschmann and
  • Thomas Keil
  • + 2 authors

We aimed to systematically identify and evaluate all studies of good quality that compared the occurrence of mental disorders in the self-employed versus employees. Adhering to the Cochrane guidelines, we conducted a systematic review and searched th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
13,709 Views
19 Pages

26 October 2017

Millions of children have a parent with a mental illness (COPMI). These children are at higher risk of acquiring behavioural, developmental and emotional difficulties. Most children, including COPMI, have low levels of mental health literacy (MHL), m...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
259 Views
14 Pages

4 November 2015

In a previous published paper, we initiated in this journal discussion about new perspectives regarding the organization and functioning of the mind, as a premise for addressing the mind-body problem. In this article, we continue focussing discussion...

  • Article
  • Open Access
928 Views
12 Pages

Background: Many workers in non-health settings interact with people with living experiences of mental ill-health but have little knowledge about the symptoms, the mental health system, or may hold stigmatising views. Aims: This study evaluated the i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,628 Views
11 Pages

Parental Support, Beliefs about Mental Illness, and Mental Help-Seeking among Young Adults in Saudi Arabia

  • Alaa Mahsoon,
  • Loujain Sharif,
  • Maram Banakhar,
  • Nofaa Alasmee,
  • Esraa Almowallad,
  • Razan Jabali,
  • Amjad Bahamil and
  • Sara Assur

Mental illness is not uncommon among young adults, but negative attitudes towards mental disorders and lack of parental support might be associated with hesitancy in seeking professional help. This study aimed to examine the relationships of parental...

  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
8,677 Views
18 Pages

Mental Health Is a Family Affair—Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on the Associations between Mental Health Problems in Parents and Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Markus Stracke,
  • Miriam Heinzl,
  • Anne Dorothee Müller,
  • Kristin Gilbert,
  • Anne Amalie Elgaard Thorup,
  • Jean Lillian Paul and
  • Hanna Christiansen

As a multidimensional and universal stressor, the COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected the mental health of children, adolescents, and adults worldwide. In particular, families faced numerous restrictions and challenges. From the literature, it is w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,701 Views
11 Pages

Tailored Mental Health Literacy Training Improves Mental Health Knowledge and Confidence among Canadian Farmers

  • Briana N. M. Hagen,
  • Sherilee L. Harper,
  • Terri L. O’Sullivan and
  • Andria Jones-Bitton

This study evaluated the impact of “In the Know” mental health literacy training for Canadian agriculture. We hypothesized that “In the Know” would significantly increase participants’ knowledge around mental health, con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
9,283 Views
27 Pages

8 June 2015

Trends in international human rights law have challenged States globally to rethink involuntary mental health interventions from a non-discrimination perspective. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in part...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,469 Views
14 Pages

Community inclusion is a human right for all people, including people with mental illness. It is also an important part of individualized support to enable people experiencing mental illness to live in their preferred communities and to recover. In T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
12,428 Views
23 Pages

24 March 2018

In England and Wales, the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA 1983) provides the legal framework which governs decisions made concerning the care and treatment of those suffering from mental disorders, where they may pose a risk to themselves or others. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,368 Views
11 Pages

25 April 2025

Objective: We aim to determine the association between insomnia symptoms and mental health in females and males and compare mental health care utilization and perceived barriers between females and males with insomnia symptoms. Methods: This is a cro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,517 Views
20 Pages

This preliminary study aimed to explore postgraduate students’ perceptions of mental wellbeing and mental health literacy at a university in the East of England. Due to government widening participation initiatives, more students from minority...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,336 Views
17 Pages

Assessing Mental Health Literacy Among Undergraduate Nursing Students in South Africa

  • Ernest Peresu,
  • Gladys Kigozi-Male and
  • Michelle Engelbrecht

15 September 2025

Background: Amidst a growing shortage of human resources for mental health, concerns persist over the mental health literacy (MHL) and readiness of nursing students to fulfil their future role as non-specialist mental healthcare providers. Methods: A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,037 Views
13 Pages

29 December 2023

The global rise in mental health disorders has significant social, economic, and physical impacts. Despite advancements in support, cultural beliefs attributing mental illnesses to spiritual causes persist, fostering discrimination and stigmatization...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,351 Views
11 Pages

Happiness and Mental Disorders

  • Eva Lourdes Díaz Hernández,
  • Pedro Ruymán Brito Brito and
  • Alfonso Miguel García Hernández

16 September 2022

The research object is the approach the meaning of happiness for people with severe mental illness (SMI) under follow-up in a mental health unit in Tenerife. The research aims to improve the care they receive. This qualitative, phenomenological study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,393 Views
9 Pages

People living with serious mental illness (SMI) experience physical health complications at disproportionate rates to people without an SMI. Unhealthy dietary intake and disordered eating behaviors are key driving factors. There is a lack of valid nu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,841 Views
12 Pages

Mental Health Burden of German Cancer Patients before and after the Outbreak of COVID-19: Predictors of Mental Health Impairment

  • Alexander Bäuerle,
  • Venja Musche,
  • Kira Schmidt,
  • Adam Schweda,
  • Madeleine Fink,
  • Benjamin Weismüller,
  • Hannah Kohler,
  • Ken Herrmann,
  • Mitra Tewes and
  • Martin Teufel
  • + 2 authors

The aim of this study was to analyze individual changes in cancer patients’ mental health before and after the COVID-19 outbreak, and to explore predictors of mental health impairment. Over a two-week period (16–30 March 2020), 150 cancer patients in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,177 Views
12 Pages

Engaging with Transformative Paradigms in Mental Health

  • Louise Whitaker,
  • Fiona L. Smith,
  • Catherine Brasier,
  • Melissa Petrakis and
  • Lisa Brophy

When graduates of Australian social work courses embark on a career in mental health, the systems they enter are complex, fragmented and evolving. Emerging practitioners will commonly be confronted by the loneliness, social exclusion, poverty and pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
12,998 Views
13 Pages

Mental Health Difficulties and Countermeasures during the Coronavirus Disease Pandemic in Japan: A Nationwide Questionnaire Survey of Mental Health and Psychiatric Institutions

  • Tomohiro Nakao,
  • Keitaro Murayama,
  • Sho Takahashi,
  • Mami Kayama,
  • Daisuke Nishi,
  • Toru Horinouchi,
  • Nozomu Oya and
  • Hironori Kuga

The number of people with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been increasing worldwide. Anxiety about potential infection, fear of severe illness, death, economic problems, and loneliness and isolation brought on by social distancing are increasingly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,699 Views
13 Pages

Clinicians’ and Users’ Views and Experiences of a Tele-Mental Health Service Implemented Alongside the Public Mental Health System during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Anton Isaacs,
  • Eleanor K. L. Mitchell,
  • Keith Sutton,
  • Michael Naughton,
  • Rochelle Hine,
  • Shane Bullock,
  • Denise Azar and
  • Darryl Maybery

A tele-mental health model called Head to Health was implemented in the state of Victoria, Australia to address the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a free centralized intake service that adopted a targeted approach with several novel e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,801 Views
22 Pages

Perceptions and Attitudes of Mental Health Professionals toward the Mental Health Care Law in Saudi Arabia

  • Ahmad H. Almadani,
  • Eylaf S. Altheyab,
  • Meshal A. Alkheraiji,
  • Abdulaziz F. Alfraiji,
  • Fatimah Albrekkan,
  • AlRabab S. Alkhamis,
  • Fay H. AlBuqami and
  • Mohammed A. Aljaffer

21 October 2023

The Saudi Mental Health Care Law (SMHL) was established in 2014; however, no prior study has evaluated mental health professionals’ perceptions or attitudes toward it. This cross-sectional study examines these aspects and their associated facto...

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