Adolescent Mentalizing As a Mediator between Parental Mentalizing, Attachment Security, and Eating Disorders

A clinical sample of adolescents aged 14 to 21 and their parents will complete a series of questionnaires to test whether the paths linking both parental mentalizing and attachment security for each parent to different adolescent eating disorders are mediated by adolescent mentalizing. Gender differences for adolescents will be tested.