Camerlynck, Marie-Frederique;
(2023)
The Role of Mentalizing in the Association between Childhood Trauma and Emotion Regulation in Borderline Personality Disorder.
Doctoral thesis (D.Clin.Psy), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
Overview. This thesis explores the effect of mentalizing in the relationship between experiences of childhood trauma and emotion regulation difficulties, in both individuals with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and healthy controls. The first part of the thesis presents a systematic review and meta-analysis that investigated the use of the Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition (MASC) to discriminate mentalizing ability between clinical and non-clinical groups, and explored the differences in type of mentalizing impairments across different clinical groups. The results supported the use of the MASC in clinical populations, as well as contributed to the growing evidence of mentalizing impairments in a range of psychopathologies and the possibility of disorder-specific profiles of mentalizing deficits. The second part of this thesis presents an empirical paper which investigated whether mentalizing capacity impacts the relationship between experiences of childhood trauma and emotion regulation difficulties in individuals with BPD and healthy controls. The findings of the study suggested that mentalizing partially mediates the effect of childhood trauma on emotion regulation difficulties. This effect was not observed when looking at the BPD or healthy controls groups separately, and the possible explanations for this are discussed. The third part of the thesis consists of a critical appraisal of the research, which reflects on the process of conducting the research, the challenges encountered and the potential clinical implications of the findings.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Qualification: | D.Clin.Psy |
| Title: | The Role of Mentalizing in the Association between Childhood Trauma and Emotion Regulation in Borderline Personality Disorder |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2023. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10178883 |
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