Price Cynthia J, Thompson Elaine Adams
School of Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
J Altern Complement Med. 2007 Nov;13(9):945-53. doi: 10.1089/acm.2007.0537.
This study aimed to test the preliminary psychometric properties of the Scale of Body Connection (SBC), a 20-item self-report measure, designed to assess body awareness and bodily dissociation in mind-body intervention research.
The SBC items were based on common expressions of awareness in body therapy. Content validity was established by a panel of experts. The validity and reliability of the scale was examined with an undergraduate sample. To assess the scale's discriminant validity, the respondents were asked to indicate exposure to specific traumas.
Confirmatory factor analysis, used to examine the scale's construct validity, indicated acceptable goodness-of-fit indices, and revealed uncorrelated subscales, reflecting independent dimensions. Cronbach's alpha revealed equal internal consistency reliability for each subscale for both men and women. Body awareness scores did not differ between individuals with and without reported trauma exposure. Bodily dissociation scores differed between individuals with and without past experience with physical trauma, suggesting the applicability of this subscale for use with populations with trauma histories.
The results provide preliminary evidence of the construct validity and internal consistency reliability of the SBC.
本研究旨在测试身体联结量表(SBC)的初步心理测量特性,该量表为一项包含20个条目的自评量表,旨在评估身心干预研究中的身体意识和身体解离情况。
SBC的条目基于身体治疗中常见的意识表达。由专家小组确定内容效度。使用本科样本检验该量表的效度和信度。为评估该量表的区分效度,要求受访者表明是否经历过特定创伤。
用于检验量表结构效度的验证性因素分析表明,拟合优度指标可接受,并揭示了不相关的子量表,反映了独立的维度。克朗巴哈系数表明,男性和女性各子量表的内部一致性信度相同。报告有创伤暴露经历和无创伤暴露经历的个体之间,身体意识得分无差异。有身体创伤既往史和无身体创伤既往史的个体之间,身体解离得分存在差异,表明该子量表适用于有创伤史的人群。
研究结果为SBC的结构效度和内部一致性信度提供了初步证据。