Spanish Adaptation of the Mentalization Questionnaire (MZQ) in Community Adolescents and Adults.

IF 3.2 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Psicothema Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI:10.7334/psicothema2023.47

Jacqueline Nonweiler, Eduardo Doval, Neus Barrantes-Vidal, Sergi Ballespí

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Abstract

Background: Despite the role of mentalization in mental health outcomes and prevention, psychometrically-evaluated screening measures for mentalization remain sparse. One widely-used mentalization questionnaire is the Mentalization Questionnaire (MZQ; Hausberg et al., 2012), which we aimed to adapt and validate for use in Spanish.

Method: We adapted the MZQ to European Spanish and evaluated its psychometric properties in both adolescent (n = 389, ages 12-19, M = 14.5) and adult community samples (n = 382, M = 48).

Results: Confirmatory factor analysis resulted in a unidimensional structure including all items. This model had better goodness of fit than the original and other adaptations. Invariance analysis showed the same structure in adolescents compared by sex and age, and additionally in the adult versus adolescent samples. Evidence for convergent and discriminant validity was found. Internal consistency values in both adolescents and parents were fair and in the adolescent sample the MZQ scores remained moderately stable after re-test.

Conclusions: The Spanish adaptation of the MZQ presents similar evidence of reliability and validity in the adolescent and adult samples. The results support this being a suitable version for evaluating mentalization in the general population.

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社区青少年和成年人心理化问卷 (MZQ) 的西班牙文改编版。

背景：尽管心理化在心理健康结果和心理健康预防中扮演着重要角色，但经过心理测量学评估的心理化筛查措施仍然很少。心理化问卷（MZQ；Hausberg et al：我们将 MZQ 改编为欧洲西班牙语，并在青少年（n = 389，12-19 岁，M = 14.5）和成人社区样本（n = 382，M = 48）中对其心理测量特性进行了评估：确认性因素分析得出了一个包含所有项目的单维结构。该模型的拟合优度优于原始模型和其他改编模型。不变性分析表明，青少年的结构与性别和年龄的结构相同，此外，成人样本与青少年样本的结构也相同。研究还发现了收敛效度和区分效度。青少年和家长的内部一致性值尚可，青少年样本的 MZQ 分数在重测后保持了适度的稳定：西班牙文改编版 MZQ 在青少年和成人样本中的信度和效度证据相似。结论：西班牙文改编版 MZQ 在青少年和成人样本中具有相似的信度和效度，结果表明该版本适合用于评估普通人群的精神状态。

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Psicothema PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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6.50

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24 weeks

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