“If I could read your mind…”: parental mentalizing in mothers with borderline personality disorder

Table 5 Intercorrelations among PRFQ subscales, adapted mind-mindedness indices and sociodemographic variables in the overall sample

Variable	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
1. PRFQ_PM	–
2. PRFQ_CMS	− 0.17^**	–
3. PRFQ_IC	− 0.35^***	0.18^**	–
4. PRFQ_CMS−T	0.03	0.02	− 0.08	–
5. PRFQ_IC−T	0.29^***	0.09	− 0.49^***	0.24^***	–
6. MM	0.07	− 0.05	− 0.01	0.03	− 0.05	–
7. MM_self	0.06	− 0.10	0.04	0.08	− 0.08	0.50^***	–
8. MM_child	0.02	0.03	− 0.04	− 0.03	0.01	0.71^***	− 0.25^***	–
9. MM_nk	− 0.04	− 0.01	0.03	− 0.02	− 0.02	− 0.10	− 0.07	− 0.06	–
10. MM_pos	− 0.11	0.06	0.12^*	− 0.02	− 0.05	− 0.01	0.04	− 0.03	0.06	–
11. MM_neg	0.24^***	− 0.22^***	− 0.12^*	0.03	− 0.01	0.10	0.38^***	− 0.21^***	0.03	− 0.08	–
12. MM_neutral	− 0.07	0.09	− 0.01	0.01	0.04	− 0.07	− 0.27^***	0.15^**	− 0.06	− 0.77^***	− 0.57^***	–
13. Age mother	− 0.02	− 0.06	− 0.15^**	0.08	0.06	− 0.05	− 0.08	0.01	0.00	− 0.06	0.04	0.03
14. Age index-child	0.23^***	− 0.08	− 0.15^**	0.04	0.11	0.08	− 0.07	0.13^*	− 0.05	− 0.11	0.03	0.07
15. Sex index-child	0.03	0.01	− 0.01	0.05	0.00	− 0.03	0.02	− 0.04	0.04	0.02	0.03	− 0.04
16. Education	− 0.23^***	0.10	0.31^***	0.07	− 0.23^***	0.03	0.04	0.01	0.12^*	0.04	− 0.05	0.00

Sex index-child is coded 0 for males, 1 for females
Education is coded 0 for lower maternal education, 1 for higher maternal education
PRFQ_PM pre-mentalizing, PRFQ_CMS certainty about mental states, PRFQ_IC interest and curiosity, PRFQ_CMS−T certainty about mental states, transformed score: (y = mean)², PRFQ_IC−T interest and curiosity, transformed score: (y = mean)², MM Mind-Mindesness, MM_self related to self, MM_child related to child, MM_nk not-knowing stance, MM_pos positivity, MM_neg negativity, MM_neutral neutrality
^*p <.05
^**p <.01
^***p <.001

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