Mentalization deficit in bipolar patients during an acute depressive and manic episode: association with cognitive functions

International Journal of Bipolar Disorders

Table 1 The results of mentalization assessed by the Reading the Mind in the Eyes (R-MET), Strange Stories (SS), and Faux Pas Recognition (FPR) tests during depression (A), mania (B) and in healthy control subjects (C)

Mentalization	Group						Analysis of variance			Post hoc test
	Depression		Mania		Controls		Analysis of variance			Post hoc test
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	F(2,72)	p	Eta²	A − B	A − C	B − C
R-MET-total	21.36	5.12	23.32	3.94	28.12	3.41	16.99	< 0.001	0.32	0.235	< 0.001	< 0.001
R-MET-cognitive	11.16	3.08	12.04	2.68	15.00	1.83	15.17	< 0.001	0.30	0.454	< 0.001	< 0.001
R-MET-affective	10.20	2.87	11.28	2.34	13.12	2.55	8.08	≤ 0.001	0.18	0.311	< 0.001	0.038
SS-total	11.64	3.57	9.96	3.74	17.24	2.05	35.28	< 0.001	0.50	0.161	< 0.001	< 0.001
SS-mentalization stories	6.56	2.02	5.48	2.20	8.96	1.17	23.09	< 0.001	0.39	0.106	< 0.001	< 0.001
SS-control stories	5.08	2.23	4.48	2.33	8.24	1.45	24.43	< 0.001	0.40	0.555	< 0.001	< 0.001
FPR-total	64.52	7.63	59.00	9.82	75.08	4.01	29.3	< 0.001	0.45	0.031	< 0.001	< 0.001
FPR-cognitive	20.16	3.91	17.52	4.89	26.32	2.61	33.22	< 0.001	0.48	0.051	< 0.001	< 0.001
FPR-affective	7.64	1.63	6.36	1.80	9.20	1.04	21.74	< 0.001	0.38	0.011	0.002	< 0.001