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- Title
大学生における醜形恐怖心性とメンタライジングの関連.
- Authors
坂 田 浩 之
- Abstract
This study is aimed at deepening the understanding about youths preoccupied with their appearance. The study evaluates the association between the tendency of Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) and mentalizing capacity. Self-report questionnaires and the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) were administered to 689 university students. A closer analysis of the data showed that self-recognition of mentalizing showed a weak correlation to the tendency of BDD. In addition, self-recognition of other oriented mentalizing was positively correlated with the tendency of BDD, but self-recognition of self oriented mentalizing showed a negative correlation with the tendency of BDD. In contrast, the accuracy of externally focused, other-oriented, explicit mentalizing measured by RMET did not show any correlation with the tendency of BDD. From the findings of this study, I discuss the possibility that youths preoccupied with their appearance tend to evaluate themselves as having a high capacity to mentalize about others and a low capacity to mentalize about themselves.
- Subjects
BODY dysmorphic disorder; DATA analysis; QUESTIONNAIRES; COLLEGE students; SELF-evaluation
- Publication
Japanese Journal of Personality / Pasonariti Kenkyu, 2021, Vol 30, Issue 2, p101
- ISSN
1348-8406
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2132/personality.30.2.9