Zaburzenia osobowości a stany Ja – mediująca rola zdolności do mentalizacji
Personality disorders and the ego states –the mediating role of the ability to mentalize

Summary/Abstract: Purpose: Transactional Analysis has faced an important theoretical and empirical challenge as a result of the change in the approach to personality disorders in the DSM-5 and ICD-11 medical classifications of mental and behavioral disorders. The aim of the study was to determine whether there are relationships between positively and negatively used ego states and personality func-tioning,and the ability to mentalize, and to check whether the ability to mentalize is a mediator between the depth of personality disorder and the intensity of the ego statesused. Methods: Personality disorder was examined using the Self Functioning and Interpersonal Functioning Scale (SIFS, Gamache et al., 2019; Polish adaptationby Cieciuch and Strus, 2021), the ability to mentalize with the Mentalization Scale (MentS, Dimitrijević et al., 2018; Polish adapta-tion by Jańczak, 2021), positive and negative ego states with the Questionnaire of the Ego States (Matkowski,Więcławski, 2016). Subjects: A total of 106 people aged 18 to 65 were examined. The average age of the respondent was 25.8 years, the largest group were women with incomplete higher education. Almost half of the group had a psychiatric diagnosis of various mental disorders or were undergoing diagnostic tests for a personality disorder. Results: Significant relationships were found between the general level of personality function-ing and its two domains –functioning of the self and interpersonal functioning, and the intensity of positively used ego states and only a few egostatesusednegatively. There were significant correlations between the general ability to mentalize,the ability to mentalize about oneself and the mind of other people,and the Adult ego state. The assumption about the mediating role of the ability to mentalize between personality functioning and the state of the Adult ego state has not been confirmed.

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