Body Conscious? Interoceptive Awareness, Measured by Heartbeat Perception, Is Negatively Correlated with Self-Objectification

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Ainley, Vivien ^a   Tsakiris, Manos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY CONSCIOUSNESS QUESTIONNAIRE; BODY IMAGE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; HEART BEAT; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; SELF CONCEPT; SELF CONSCIOUSNESS SCALE; SELF EVALUATION; SELF OBJECTIFICATION QUESTIONNAIRE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AWARENESS; BODY IMAGE; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873551220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055568     Document Type: Article

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