Assessing body awareness and autonomic reactivity: Factor structure and psychometric properties of the Body Perception Questionnaire‐Short Form (BPQ‐SF)

• Published in: International journal of methods in psychiatric research Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. e1596 - n/a
• Main Authors: Cabrera, Ana, Kolacz, Jacek, Pailhez, Guillem, Bulbena‐Cabre, Andrea, Bulbena, Antonio, Porges, Stephen W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.06.2018; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Adult; Autonomic nervous system; Autonomic Nervous System - physiology; autonomic reactivity; Awareness - physiology; Behavior disorders; body awareness; Discriminant analysis; Female; Humans; interoception; Interoception - physiology; Male; Mental disorders; Middle Aged; Neural networks; Original; Perception; polyvagal theory; Psychometrics - instrumentation; Psychometrics - standards; Psychometrics - statistics & numerical data; Quantitative psychology; Questionnaires; Reproducibility of Results; Young Adult; United States > US; autonomic nervous system; autonomic reactivity; interoception; polyvagal theory; body awareness

Body awareness and reactivity dysfunction are characteristic of a range of psychiatric disorders. Although the neural pathways communicating between the body and brain that contribute to these experiences involve the autonomic nervous system, few research tools for studying subjective bodily experie...