TY - JOUR
T1 - Development and criterion validity of a computerized text analysis measure of reflective functioning
AU - Fertuck, Eric A.
AU - Mergenthaler, Erhard
AU - Target, Mary
AU - Levy, Kenneth N.
AU - Clarkin, John F.
N1 - Funding Information:
EF and EM contributed equally to this manuscript as first authors. This research was supported by grants from the Research Fund of the International Psychoanalytical Association and NIMH (K23MH077044) to EF, the Kohler Fund of Munich and NIMH (F32 MH12530) to KNL, and a grant from the Borderline Personality Disorder Research Foundation (BPDRF) awarded to Otto F. Kernberg.
PY - 2012/5
Y1 - 2012/5
N2 - The Reflective Functioning scale (RF) is a narrative-based assessment of the capacity to coherently conceptualize one's own and others' subjective motivations, emotions, beliefs, and desires. We report the preliminary results of an effort to develop a computerized text analysis version (CRF) of the RF assessment system. A sample of 113 clinical and non-clinical Adult Attachment Interviews (AAI) were utilized to develop the CRF measure. Using the Marker Approach (Mergenthaler & Bucci, 1999), 54 linguistic markers of high RF language were identified. The associations between CRF and RF were significant in both a clinical sample of patients diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) (Spearman rho=.57, p<.0001) and a non-clinical sample of adults (Spearman rho=.57, p=.002). These results suggest that a CRF rating scale is feasible, has preliminary criterion validity, and, therefore, has potential to facilitate the efficient assessment of RF.
AB - The Reflective Functioning scale (RF) is a narrative-based assessment of the capacity to coherently conceptualize one's own and others' subjective motivations, emotions, beliefs, and desires. We report the preliminary results of an effort to develop a computerized text analysis version (CRF) of the RF assessment system. A sample of 113 clinical and non-clinical Adult Attachment Interviews (AAI) were utilized to develop the CRF measure. Using the Marker Approach (Mergenthaler & Bucci, 1999), 54 linguistic markers of high RF language were identified. The associations between CRF and RF were significant in both a clinical sample of patients diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) (Spearman rho=.57, p<.0001) and a non-clinical sample of adults (Spearman rho=.57, p=.002). These results suggest that a CRF rating scale is feasible, has preliminary criterion validity, and, therefore, has potential to facilitate the efficient assessment of RF.
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U2 - 10.1080/10503307.2011.650654
DO - 10.1080/10503307.2011.650654
M3 - Article
C2 - 22320840
AN - SCOPUS:84861928644
SN - 1050-3307
VL - 22
SP - 298
EP - 305
JO - Psychotherapy Research
JF - Psychotherapy Research
IS - 3
ER -