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Psychometric and Biometric Tools in Human Health and Disease

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2022) | Viewed by 7150

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Mario Miccoli

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Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Interests: COVID-19; secondary traumatic stress; burnout; health care workers; biostatistics; epidemiology; public health; mindfulness; mind–body therapies; blood pressure; hypertension; meditation
Prof. Dr. Andrea Poli

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Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, 56121 Pisa, Italy
Interests: clinical psychology; biostatistics; biometrics; neurobiology of fear-related memories; mindfulness; self-compassion; non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation techniques; gut-brain axis

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In many research areas psychometric tools are widely used to assess human behavioral, emotional and cognitive domains in both health and disease conditions. Though informative, psychometric scores are not able to capture the underlying physiological and neurobiological mechanisms that may elucidate the full framework of brain-mind relationship. Combining the psychometric, neurobiological and biostatistical approaches may contribute to clarify the brain-mind interactions and to develop a unitary view on such complex relationships. However, a paucity of research aims at directly correlating psychometric scores with physiological or neurobiological data. Promoting the combination of these approaches may benefit future psychobiological and biostatistical research.

We welcome contributions focusing on psychometric tools associated with the different neuroscientific levels of investigation (e.g. genetic/epigenetic, neural, behavioral, psychophysiological) in health and disease. Potential contributions may:

  1. Investigate and discuss the relationships between psychometric scores and neurobiological data in clinical or non-clinical samples;
  2. Validate and discuss, in clinical or non-clinical populations, new biologically-informed psychometric tools that are strongly rooted in a neuroscientific background.

We invite you to contribute to this Special Issue with a research paper, systematic review, meta-analysis, methodological paper, brief report, mini-review, or editorial addressing one or more of these topics.

Dr. Mario Miccoli
Prof. Dr. Andrea Poli
Guest Editors

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Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • psychometric tools
  • biometrics
  • assessment
  • neurobiology
  • biostatistics
  • emotion
  • cognition

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Clients’ Facial Expressions of Self-Compassion, Self-Criticism, and Self-Protection in Emotion-Focused Therapy Videos
by Ghazaleh Bailey, Júlia Halamová and Viktória Vráblová
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(2), 1129; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph20021129 - 09 Jan 2023
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Clients’ facial expressions allow psychotherapists to gather more information about clients’ emotional processing. This study aims to examine and investigate the facial Action Units (AUs) of self-compassion, self-criticism, and self-protection within real Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) sessions. For this purpose, we used the facial [...] Read more.
Clients’ facial expressions allow psychotherapists to gather more information about clients’ emotional processing. This study aims to examine and investigate the facial Action Units (AUs) of self-compassion, self-criticism, and self-protection within real Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) sessions. For this purpose, we used the facial analysis software iMotions. Twelve video sessions were selected for the analysis based on specific criteria. For self-compassion, the following AUs were significant: AUs 4 (brow furrow), 15 (lip corner depressor), and the AU12_smile (lip corner puller). For self-criticism, iMotions identified the AUs 2 (outer brow raise), AU1 (inner brow raise), AU7 (lid tighten), AU12_smirk (unilateral lip corner puller), and AU43 (eye closure). Self-protection was combined using the occurrence of AUs 1 and 4 and AU12_smirk. Moreover, the findings support the significance of discerning self-compassion and self-protection as two different concepts. Full article
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Item Reduction, Psychometric and Biometric Properties of the Italian Version of the Body Perception Questionnaire—Short Form (BPQ-SF): The BPQ-22
by Andrea Poli, Angelo Giovanni Icro Maremmani, Carlo Chiorri, Gian-Paolo Mazzoni, Graziella Orrù, Jacek Kolacz, Stephen W. Porges, Ciro Conversano, Angelo Gemignani and Mario Miccoli
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(7), 3835; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph18073835 - 06 Apr 2021
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Body awareness disorders and reactivity are mentioned across a range of clinical problems. Constitutional differences in the control of the bodily state are thought to generate a vulnerability to psychological symptoms. Autonomic nervous system dysfunctions have been associated with anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic [...] Read more.
Body awareness disorders and reactivity are mentioned across a range of clinical problems. Constitutional differences in the control of the bodily state are thought to generate a vulnerability to psychological symptoms. Autonomic nervous system dysfunctions have been associated with anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress. Though interoception may be a transdiagnostic mechanism promoting the improvement of clinical symptomatology, few psychometrically sound, symptom-independent, self-report measures, informed by brain–body circuits, are available for research and clinical use. We validated the Italian version of the body perception questionnaire (BPQ)—short form and found that response categories could be collapsed from five to three and that the questionnaire retained a three-factor structure with items reduced from 46 to 22 (BPQ-22). The first factor was loaded by body awareness items; the second factor comprised some items from the body awareness scale and some from the subdiaphragmatic reactivity scale (but all related to bloating and digestive issues), and the third factor by supradiaphragmatic reactivity items. The BPQ-22 had sound psychometric properties, good convergent and discriminant validity and test–retest reliability and could be used in clinical and research settings in which the body perception assessment is of interest. Psychometric findings in light of the polyvagal theory are discussed. Full article
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