Social Cognition and Object Relations in Adolescents: Associations with Adaptive Functioning and Personality Pathology Public
Goldberg, Melissa Gayle (2011)
Abstract
Abstract
Social Cognition and Object Relations in Adolescents: Associations
with Adaptive Functioning and Personality Pathology
By Melissa Goldberg
The Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale (SCORS) is a measure applied to relational narrative data to assess information about an individual's self/other representations and interpersonal functioning. While an abundance of research has used the SCORS to assess adult psychopathology and treatment response, less work has focused on adolescents. This study aims to evaluate the developmental stability of social cognition and object relations across early and late-stage adolescents in a clinical sample, its relationship to personality pathology and adaptive functioning, and whether this construct and measure provide incremental validity over personality disorder diagnosis and age in predicting multiple domains of adaptive functioning. SCORS scales exhibited developmental growth across age groups, showed significantly more pathology in adolescents with diagnosable personality pathology, and predicted domains of adaptive functioning above and beyond age and DSM-IV personality disorder diagnosis. These findings suggest that social cognition and object relations constitute aspects of personality crucial to adaptive functioning that are related to but not fully captured by personality disorder diagnosis.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction...1
Object relations theory...2
Social cognition...5
Measuring social cognition and object relations capacities with the
SCORS...6
Clinical application of the SCORS to patients' relational
narratives in psychotherapy...10
Predictions...13
Method...14
Participants and Procedure...14
Measures...14
Results...16
Descriptive Statistics...16
SCORS and age...17
SCORS and personality disorders...17
SCORS and adaptive/maladaptive functioning...18
Incremental validity of SCORS with age and personality disorders in
associations with adaptive and maladaptive functioning...18
Discussion...19
SCORS measurements...19
Limitations...21
Clinical Implications...22
References...31
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