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May 20-21, 2019 | Rome, Italy

Journal Clinical Psychiatry and Cognitive Psychology | Volume 3

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Psychiatry 2019

PSYCHIATRY AND

PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS

International Conference on

THE MEDIATING ROLE OF MENTALIZATION IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ATTACH-

MENT STYLE AND REJECTION SENSITIVITY: A PRELIMINARY STUDY

Anna Contardi

European University of Rome, Italy

he aim of the present study was to assess the role of mentalizing in mediating the association between

attachment style and rejection sensitivity. Participants were 526 Italian University students (399 women

and 127 men) who were administered the Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ), Mentalization Questionnaire

(MZQ), Adult Rejection Sensitivity Scale Questionnaire (ARSQ) and Teate Depression Inventory (TDI). Rejection

Teate Depression Inventory and Attachment Style were both significantly associated with mentalization and

depression. A mediational model analyzing the direct and indirect effects of attachment style on rejection

sensitivity through the mediating role of mentalization and depression suggested that the relationship was

significant. Correlations among the variables reported that both avoidant and anxious attachment were nega-

tively related to mentalization ability (r= -0.55 and r= -0.61 respectively) and positively associated to depressive

symptoms (r = 0.39 and r = 0.51 respectively) and rejection sensitivity severity (r= 0.29 and r= 0.43 respective-

ly). An opposite pattern of correlations was observed for secure attachment. The results are consistent with

Bateman and Fonagy’s Theory that implies a mediating role of mentalizing between attachment and psycho-

pathology.

Anna Contardi, J Clin Psychiatry Cog Psychol 2019, Volume 3

Anna Contardi is an Assistant professor, psychotherapist and researcher in Clinical Psychology since 2009. She teaches “Cognitive

and Personality Psychology” and “General Psychodiagnostics and laboratory” for the undergraduate and graduate Psychology

courses at the European University of Rome (UER). She is the coordinator of the MA in Psychology for the UER and she has been a

member of the Doctoral Committee (Cognitive Psychology and Clinical Assessment) for the same university. She collaborates with

the research group of the Institute Skinner of Rome to build a causal cognitive model.

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