Czech Version of the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA) : Psychometric Evaluation and Network Model

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F25%3A00144255" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/25:00144255 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12671-025-02515-w" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12671-025-02515-w</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12671-025-02515-w" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12671-025-02515-w</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Czech Version of the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA) : Psychometric Evaluation and Network Model

Original language description

Objectives: Interoceptive awareness is crucial in mental health research, yet the psychometric characteristics of the most commonly used tool to measure it, the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA), have been underexplored, as the results of previous studies have been inconclusive. This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric characteristics of the Czech version of the tool (MAIACZ). Method: Participants were sampled from seven clinical sites in the Czech Republic and the final sample consisted of 431 Czech clinical patients (75% women, Mage = 39.20 ± 11.04 years), suffering from various psychiatric diagnoses. Patients were measured weekly across 8 weeks. A combination of factor analysis and network models was employed. Results: Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) supported the commonly used eight-factor structure of the MAIA, consistent with the original English version, though subscales Not distracting, Not worrying, and Noticing showed poor internal consistency. Invariance across gender, age, and measurement waves was confirmed using multigroup CFA. Convergence validity was established through correlations between MAIACZ subscales and measures of anxiety, depression, alexithymia, and symptom acceptance. A bootstrapped dynamic network model, conducted over 8 weekly measurement waves, showed the dynamic associations between MAIA subscales and its relation to wellbeing. Conclusions: Contrary to the theoretical model, the temporal graph revealed that the main source nodes were related to the subjective mindset towards interoception, such as the tendency not to worry or distract from bodily signals, rather than the neutral perception of interoceptive stimuli. Well-being was also a prerequisite rather than a consequence of interoceptive awareness-related mechanisms. The Trusting subscale, which has received significant support for its predictive effects in previous literature, was found to be related to wellbeing primarily at the between-person level.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-08512S" target="_blank" >GA18-08512S: Effectiveness of psychotherapy in patients with medically unexplained physical symptoms: A multi-site naturalistic study</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Mindfulness

ISSN

1868-8527

e-ISSN

1868-8535

Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

403-420

UT code for WoS article

001400734000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85217216765