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Mentalization impairments are transdiagnostic, but the literature primarily focuses on younger children and adults in Western cultures, with limited exploration in adolescents. This study aimed to explore the differences between mentalization profiles of adolescents with internalizing disorders (AID) and typically developing adolescents (TDA) in India.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The sample included 166 adolescents (aged 12\u201317), divided into the AID group (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 83) diagnosed with either depression, anxiety, or somatoform\/dissociative disorders, and the TDA group (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 83) without any psychiatric illness, group-matched on age, gender, and years of formal education. The Mentalization Scale (MentS), the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire for Youth (RFQ-Y), and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) were administered to both groups. In contrast, the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale for Youth was administered only to the AID group to assess symptom severity.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Mann\u2013Whitney U tests revealed the AID group had significantly lower \u201cself-mentalization\u201d (r\n                      <jats:sub>rb<\/jats:sub>\n                      = 0.177) and \u201cOverall mentalization Ability\u201d (r\n                      <jats:sub>rb<\/jats:sub>\n                      = 0.311). No significant differences were found in \u201cother-mentalization\u201d and \u201cmotivation to Mentalize.\u201d Spearman\u2019s Rank-Order Correlation revealed that \u201cOverall mentalization ability\u201d was significantly negatively correlated with internalizing and externalizing problems on the SDQ, whereas \u201cmotivation to Mentalize\u201d was significantly positively correlated with emotional symptoms on the SDQ.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study highlights differential impairments in mentalization domains between AID and TDA, providing novel insights into mentalization profiles of adolescents through a developmental lens with theoretical and clinical implications in addressing this transdiagnostic vulnerability.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1177\/02537176261419381","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,11]],"date-time":"2026-02-11T11:57:23Z","timestamp":1770811043000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Mentalization Profiles of Adolescents with Internalizing Disorders: Domain-specific Differences Compared to Typically Developing Adolescents"],"prefix":"10.1177","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6699-0487","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Arushee","family":"Wahi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Dept. of Clinical Psychology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0272-8647","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bangalore N.","family":"Roopesh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Dept. of Clinical Psychology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9044-2344","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"John Vijay Sagar","family":"Kommu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Dept. of Child &amp; Adolescent Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India."}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/j.2051-5545.2010.tb00255.x"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_3_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cpr.2013.12.003"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_4_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.chc.2013.01.001"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_5_2","volume-title":"Mentalizing in psychotherapy: A guide for practitioners","author":"Sharp C","year":"2022","unstructured":"Sharp C, and Bevington D. 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