Social Cognition and Object Relations in Adolescents: Associations with Adaptive Functioning and Personality Pathology 公开

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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School	Emory College
Department	Psychology
Degree	BA
Submission	Honors Thesis
Language	English
Research Field	Psychology, General
关键词	Adaptive Functioning Object Relations
Committee Chair / Thesis Advisor	Westen, Drew, Emory University
Committee Members	Bliwise, Nancy, Emory University Covey, Bruce, Emory University

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