title: Validation of the Japanese Version of the Body Vigilance Scale.
abstract: The Body Vigilance Scale is a self-report measure of attention to bodily sensations. The measure was translated into Japanese and its reliability, validity, and factor structure were verified. Participants comprised 286 university students (age: 19 ± 1 years). All participants were administered the scale, along with several indices of anxiety (i.e., Anxiety Sensitivity Index, Short Health Anxiety Inventory Illness Likelihood Scale, Social Interaction Anxiety Scale, and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale). The Japanese version of the Body Vigilance Scale exhibited a unidimensional factor structure and strong internal consistency. Construct validity was demonstrated by significant correlations with the above measures. Results suggest that the Japanese version of the scale is a reliable, valid tool for measuring body vigilance in Japanese university students.
authors.affiliation: Center for Health and Community Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
authors.forename: Tatsuo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Saigo
authors.affiliation: Risk Analysis Research Center, Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoshitake
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takebayashi
authors.affiliation: Center for Health and Community Medicine; Graduate School of Education, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tayama
authors.affiliation: Center for Health and Community Medicine and the Student Accessibility Office, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
authors.forename: Peter J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Bernick
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
authors.forename: Norman B
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.affiliation: Center for Health and Community Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
authors.forename: Susumu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shirabe
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology, School of Psychological Science, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Hokkaido, Japan sakano@hoku-iryo-u.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Yuji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sakano
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012677:Sensation; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: anxiety; body vigilance; psychological measure