Mentalizing—the ability to represent or infer the mental states of others—continues to develop into and throughout adolescence. Increased mentalizing sophistication during adolescence is thought to support the navigation of increasingly complex social relationships and contexts. However, developmental science has yet to aggregate the seemingly disparate findings from research relating mentalizing to functional outcomes, such as internalizing mental health concerns, into clear and comprehensive theories that explain individual variability during adolescence. In this review, we describe approaches that have been used to measure mentalizing during adolescence and propose a methodological framework to measure mentalizing as a multi-dimensional process that continues to develop as a response to the environment during adolescence.

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在青春期驾驭社交世界的心智化策略

心智化——代表或推断他人心理状态的能力——持续发展到整个青春期。人们认为，青春期心理成熟度的提高有助于驾驭日益复杂的社会关系和环境。然而，发展科学尚未将心智化与功能结果（例如内化心理健康问题）相关的研究中看似完全不同的发现汇总成清晰而全面的理论来解释青春期的个体差异。在这篇综述中，我们描述了已用于测量青春期心智化的方法，并提出了一个方法框架来测量心智化作为一个多维过程，该过程作为对青春期环境的反应而持续发展。