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      The Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA)

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          This paper describes the development of a multidimensional self-report measure of interoceptive body awareness. The systematic mixed-methods process involved reviewing the current literature, specifying a multidimensional conceptual framework, evaluating prior instruments, developing items, and analyzing focus group responses to scale items by instructors and patients of body awareness-enhancing therapies. Following refinement by cognitive testing, items were field-tested in students and instructors of mind-body approaches. Final item selection was achieved by submitting the field test data to an iterative process using multiple validation methods, including exploratory cluster and confirmatory factor analyses, comparison between known groups, and correlations with established measures of related constructs. The resulting 32-item multidimensional instrument assesses eight concepts. The psychometric properties of these final scales suggest that the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA) may serve as a starting point for research and further collaborative refinement.

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                Manos Tsakiris: Role: Editor
                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
                Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
                Journal ID (pmc): plosone
                Title: PLoS ONE
                Publisher: Public Library of Science (San Francisco, USA )
                ISSN (Electronic): 1932-6203
                Publication date Collection: 2012
                Publication date (Electronic): 1 November 2012
                Volume: 7
                Issue: 11
                Electronic Location Identifier: e48230
                Affiliations
                [1 ]University of California San Francisco, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, San Francisco, California, United States of America
                [2 ]University of Washington, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
                [3 ]University of California San Francisco, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, San Francisco, California, United States of America
                [4 ]University of California San Francisco, Institute for Health & Aging, Center for Aging in Diverse Communities, San Francisco, California, United States of America
                Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom
                Author notes

                Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

                Conceived and designed the experiments: WM CP JD AS. Performed the experiments: WM CP JD MA EB AS. Analyzed the data: WM CP JD MA EB AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WM CP JD MA EB AS. Wrote the paper: WM CP JD MA EB AS.

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                Publisher ID: PONE-D-12-16026
                DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048230
                PMC ID: 3486814
                PubMed ID: 23133619
                SO-VID: 1dc72836-087c-4099-a9fb-a8ae9764953e
                Copyright statement: Copyright @ 2012
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                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                Date received : 1 June 2012
                Date accepted : 24 September 2012
                Page count
                Pages: 22
                Funding
                This research was supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants K23-AT002298 and R21-AT004467 awarded to WM, K01AT004199 awarded to JD, K01AT003459 awarded to CK from the National Center For Complementary & Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
                Categories
                Subject: Research Article
                Subject: Medicine
                Subject: Clinical Research Design
                Subject: Survey Research
                Subject: Complementary and Alternative Medicine
                Subject: Epidemiology
                Subject: Survey Methods
                Subject: Mental Health
                Subject: Psychology
                Subject: Behavior
                Subject: Emotions
                Subject: Personality
                Subject: Psychological Stress
                Subject: Psychometrics
                Subject: Sensory Perception
                Subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
                Subject: Psychology
                Subject: Behavior
                Subject: Emotions
                Subject: Therapies
                Subject: Psychotherapy
                Subject: Clinical Psychology
                Subject: Neuropsychology
                Subject: Psychological Stress
                Subject: Psychometrics
                Subject: Sensory Perception

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