Hypermentalizing as a marker of borderline personality disorder in Italian adolescents: a cross-cultural replication of Sharp and colleagues’ (2011) findings

Table 1 Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition scale scores: Descriptive statistics and group comparisons between BPD adolescents, and non-BPD adolescents and community-dwelling adolescents, respectively

	Adolescent Inpatients (n = 58)		BPD Adolescent Inpatients (n = 20)		Non-BPD Adolescent Inpatients (n = 38)				Community-Dwelling Adolescents¹ (N = 373)
MASC Scales	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	U	rank r_pb	M	SD	t(391)	d
Hypermentalizing	11.26	4.03	13.10	4.27	10.29	3.59	229.50^*	.40	10.01	3.19	4.31^***	0.99
Hypomentalizing	4.83	2.62	4.15	2.11	5.18	2.81	282.00	.26	3.94	2.26	0.41	0.09
No Mentalizing	3.36	2.55	2.95	2.52	3.58	2.56	314.50	.17	3.02	2.27	−0.14	−0.03
Total number of Correct Responses	25.59	5.17	24.80	4.99	26.00	5.28	302.50	.20	28.08	4.47	−3.27^**	−0.75

Note. 1: From Fossati and colleagues’ (2017) validation study of the MASC in Italy, MASC Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition, BPD Borderline personality disorder; rank r_pb: rank point-biserial r coefficient; d: Cohen’s d coefficient
*p < .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001

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