Examining the Relationship Between Executive Functions and Mentalizing Abilities of Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder

Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) experience interpersonal dysfunctions therefore, it is important to understand their social functioning and the confounding factors. We aimed to investigate the mentalizing abilities and executive functioning (EF) of BPD patients and healthy subjects and to determine the relative importance of BPD diagnosis and EF in predicting mentalizing abilities while controlling for general IQ and...