The body self-awareness among women practicing fitness: a preliminary study

• Authors: Anna Brytek-Matera , Anna Kozieł
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The purposes of the present study were to explore the relationship between body awareness and negative body attitude, interoceptive body awareness and physical self in women practicing fitness as well as to analyze the determinants of body awareness. The Body Awareness Questionnaire, the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness, the Physical Self-Description Questionnaire and the Body Attitude Test were applied to 43 women practicing fitness and 32 non-fitness practitioners. Bodily self-awareness was connected with greater fitness practitioners’ interoceptive body awareness and greater physical self. Noticing and global esteem predicted body awareness in women practicing fitness.

Keywords

EN

body awareness; interoceptive awareness; fitness

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 104-111

Dates

published

2015-03-01

online

2015-04-18

Contributors

author

Anna Brytek-Matera

• University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Campus in Katowice, Techników 9, 40-326 Katowice, Poland

author

Anna Kozieł

• Private psychology practice (Anna Kozieł Usługi Psychologiczne)

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ppb-2015-0014