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SUBMITTER: Mehling WE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3486814 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20121101 11
This paper describes the development of a multidimensional self-report measure of interoceptive body awareness. The systematic mixed-methods process involved reviewing the current literature, specifying a multidimensional conceptual framework, evaluating prior instruments, developing items, and analyzing focus group responses to scale items by instructors and patients of body awareness-enhancing therapies. Following refinement by cognitive testing, items were field-tested in students and instruc ...[more]