Sense of Body Boundaries Survey - construction and psychometric values

Abstract

In fi elds of modern psychology and psychiatry there was a signifi cant increase of researches on body subject. New instrument designed to measure body image and body-self are appearing. However, method for sense of body boundaries measurement have not been yet constructed. Sense of this kind is presumed to be a important body experience related to human personality and identity formation. Authors of this article present phases of Sense of the Body Boundaries Survey construction, as well as current psychometric values. Method is designed to measure the means in which individual experience own body surface. Questionnaire fi lls the gap in the list of empirical measurement methods in fi eld