"ABC"-The Awareness-Body-Chart: A new tool assessing body awareness. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Despite the importance of body awareness for health and well-being there is still a lack of valid assessment tools to scan proper body awareness. To respond to the limitations of questionnaires (reading/interpretation problems) the Awareness-Body-Chart ...
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Probing the posture with machine learning provides physiological evidence supporting the enhanced body awareness hypothesis in trait mindfulness [PDF]
Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 Enhanced body awareness has been suggested as one of the cognitive mechanisms that characterize mindfulness. Yet neuroscience literature still lacks strong empirical evidence to support this claim.
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Body Aware: Adolescents' and Young Adults' Lived Experiences of Body Awareness. [PDF]
Psychol BelgPaying attention to body sensations has been associated with many positive outcomes such as increased subjective well-being, enhanced emotion regulation, and reduced symptom reports. Furthermore, body awareness has an important therapeutic utility in the treatment of various psychological ailments. Despite its importance in mental health, there is very
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Mindfulness-Based Interventions and Body Awareness. [PDF]
Brain Sci, 2022 Body awareness (BA) has long been proposed as a working mechanism of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs), yet research on the mediating role of BA is scarce. Hence, the present study assesses the impact of an 8-week MBI on self-reported and indirect measures of BA, investigates the potential mediating role of BA in the relationship between an MBI ...
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Improving mental health through body-awareness with dynamic interpersonal therapy in patients with persistent somatic symptoms: an explorative cohort study [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryIntroductionThis study explored the changes in mental health and body-awareness in patients with severe persistent somatic symptoms (PSS) treated with multidisciplinary Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy.MethodsIn this longitudinal study 56 patients with ...
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The importance of recovering body awareness in post-stroke rehabilitation: insights from clinical case reports [PDF]
Frontiers in NeurologyIntroductionBody awareness (BA) is the process of gaining sensory awareness based on the physiological states and actions of the body. It is influenced by an individual’s attitudes, perceptions, beliefs, and experiences within the social and cultural ...
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A scoping review on the body awareness rehabilitation after stroke: are we aware of what we are unaware? [PDF]
Frontiers in NeurologyBody awareness (BA) is a complex multi-dimensional construct that refers to the subject’s ability to consciously perceive and integrate sensory and proprioceptive information related to the position, movement, and balance of one’s own body and body parts.
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Self-Reported Body Awareness: Validation of the Postural Awareness Scale and the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (Version 2) in a Non-clinical Adult French-Speaking Sample [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Body awareness refers to the individual ability to process signals originating from within the body, which provide a mapping of the body’s internal landscape (interoception) and its relation with space and movement (proprioception).
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Cardiac and Proprioceptive Accuracy Are Not Related to Body Awareness, Perceived Body Competence, and Affect [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Interoception in the broader sense refers to the perception of internal states, including the perception of the actual state of the internal organs (visceroception) and the motor system (proprioception).
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Body Awareness as a Protective Factor against Suicidal Orientations in College Students [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesIn this study, binary logistic regression and linear regression analyses were used to examine the relationship between interoceptive body awareness and suicidal orientation among Colombian university students.
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