Body awareness and mindfulness: Validation of the Spanish version of the Scale of Body Connection

Actas Espanolas de Psiquiatria

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 57-67

  Quezada Berumen, Lucia Del C ^a   González Ramírez, Monica T ^a   Cebolla, Ausias ^b,c   Soler, Joaquim ^d,e,f   Garcla Campayo, Javier ^g  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^c Instituto de Salud Carlos III   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE SALUD MENTAL CIBERSAM   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Body awareness; Body connection scale; Body dissociation.; Mindfulness; Spanish; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; AWARENESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEDITATION; MINDFULNESS; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPAIN; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AWARENESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEDITATION; MIND-BODY RELATIONS, METAPHYSICAL; MINDFULNESS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPAIN;

EID: 84899810204     PISSN: 11399287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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