| Abstract [eng] |
The aim of this research was to analyze the relationships between parents depressiveness, mentalization and their adolescents emotional and behavioural problems. In this research participated 106 parents, including 79 mothers and 27 fathers. Their age distributed from 31 to 60 years, with an average of 42 years. Mentalization (“Ments”), Depression Scales (CESD-R) and Parental Reflective Function (PRFQ - A) questionnaire were used to assess parental depressive symptoms, mentalization and their reflective function abilities. The parent version of the Strenghts and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ) was used to assess adolescents emotional and behavioral problems. The results revealed that comparing women and men, women are statistically significantly more mentalized in other mental states and have higher motivation to mentalize and their overall mentalization is higher than men. Also, women are more interested in the child’s mental states. The data below showed that lower their and other parents’ mentalization predicts higher adolescent behavioural problems, higher parental pre-mentalizing predicts higher adolescent behavioural difficulties, and lower parental pre-mentalizing predicts higher adolescent sociality. Lower parental certainty about mental states predicts higher adolescent behavioural problems, parental intrusive hypermentalization predicts higher adolescent behavioural problems and higher adults interest and curiosity in adolescent mental states predicts higher adolescent sociality, mentalization as a mediator in the association between parental depressiveness and adolescents emotional and behavioral problems did not mediate. |
