Focus Area: Body Connection
Overview: The Scale of Body Connection (SBC) measures a person's connection to their body by looking at body awareness and bodily dissociation. The underlying goal is to increase body awareness and decrease body dissociation.
Total number of items: 20
Administration: Self-report
Standardized cadence: Weekly
Supported subscales: Body Awareness and Body Dissociation
Age range: Adult
Scoring and interpretation: Answers are scored on a 5-Likert scale from 0 for "Not at all" to 4 for "All the time." The overall total score is typically not used. The scores that are most commonly used are the individual subscale scores. There are two subscales:
Body awareness: 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18
Body dissociation: 2, 5, 7, 10, 11, 16, 19, 20
The body awareness questions are forward scored from 0-4 and a higher score is associated with more bodily awareness.
The body dissociation questions are reverse scored from 4-0 and a higher score is associated with less bodily dissociation.
Overall, a higher total score is typically a good thing-- more body awareness and less body dissociation.
Typically, as body awareness increases, body dissociation decreases.
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