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Mind and Body: Italian Validation of the Postural Awareness Scale
Frontiers in psychology, Vol.11, pp.1-7
18/05/2020
PMID: 32528343
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Abstract
Postural awareness (PA) refers to a subjective conscious awareness of body posture and falls within the framework of mind–body integration. The aim of this research was to validate and evaluate psychometric properties of the Postural Awareness Scale (PAS) in an Italian population sample (n = 928; 45.04% men and 54.96% women; mean age = 29.96 years, standard deviation = 11.44). The results obtained with Velicer’s Minimum Average Partial Test, Horn’s Parallel Analysis, and exploratory factor analysis showed a two-factor solution, as supported by the confirmatory factor analysis: ease/familiarity with postural awareness and need for attention regulation with postural awareness. Furthermore, the findings highlighted both a good internal consistency (α = 0.76 for the total scale and α = 0.80, α = 0.79 for the two subscales) and a satisfactory construct validity. Furthermore, multivariate analysis of variance was carried out to assess differences in PA between specific subgroup. In particular, the positive effects of physical activity and healthy body weight were confirmed, whereas no significant differences related to gender or age were found. All these findings suggest that the Italian version of the PAS is a rapid instrument with good psychometric properties, which can be useful both for research and clinical practice.
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- Title
- Mind and Body: Italian Validation of the Postural Awareness Scale
- Creators
- Eleonora Topino - Libera Università Maria SS. AssuntaAlessio Gori - University of FlorenceHolger Cramer - Kliniken Essen-Mitte
- Publication Details
- Frontiers in psychology, Vol.11, pp.1-7
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media Sa
- Number of pages
- 14
- Identifiers
- 991013036335802368
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2020 Topino, Gori and Cramer. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms
- Academic Unit
- National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article