The Italian version of the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire: Validity within a sample of adolescents and associations with psychological problems and alexithymia.
Reflective Functioning Questionnaire
adolescents
mentalizing
psychological problems
psychometric properties
Journal
Journal of clinical psychology
ISSN: 1097-4679
Titre abrégé: J Clin Psychol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0217132
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
04 2022
04 2022
Historique:
revised:
25
03
2021
received:
20
08
2020
accepted:
30
06
2021
pubmed:
18
7
2021
medline:
16
4
2022
entrez:
17
7
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
This study aims to test the psychometric proprieties of the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ) applied to younger (13-16 years) and older (17-20 years) Italian adolescents examining (1) the factorial structure of RFQ; (2) its invariance across age and sex; (3) correlations between RFQ subscale scores, as well as the associations of the RFQ with (4) psychological problems and alexithymia dimensions. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 593 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 20 years old recruited from the community within Italy. These participants completed the RFQ, Symptom Checklist-90, and Toronto Alexithymia Scale. The two-factor structure of the RFQ was confirmed. However, higher internal consistency of RFQ was obtained by removing two items that seemed problematic within this sample. Using a six-item version of RFQ, the two-factor structure was invariant across adolescent age and sex. Significant correlations among RFQ subscale scores, and between RFQ subscales with both psychological problems and alexithymia dimensions were found. Preliminary results reveal a short version of RFQ (six-item) is a suitable measure to assess mentalizing in adolescents in the Italian context.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34273902
doi: 10.1002/jclp.23218
pmc: PMC9290635
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
503-516Informations de copyright
© 2021 The Authors. Journal of Clinical Psychology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.
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