Measuring dimensions of body connection: Body awareness and bodily dissociation

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 945-953

  Price, Cynthia J ^a   Thompson, Elaine Adams ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; EXPOSURE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INJURY; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SEX RATIO;

ADULT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY IMAGE; CONSCIOUSNESS; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIND-BODY RELATIONS (METAPHYSICS); PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 36749049204     PISSN: 10755535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/acm.2007.0537     Document Type: Article

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