title: Development and validation of a measure of adolescent dissociation: the Adolescent Dissociative Experiences Scale.
abstract: This study describes the initial reliability and validity data on the Adolescent Dissociative Experiences Scale (A-DES), a screening measure for pathological dissociation during adolescence. The A-DES showed good scale and subscale reliability, and, as hypothesized, increased scores were associated with reported trauma in a patient population. A-DES scores were able to distinguish dissociative disordered adolescents from a normal sample and from a patient sample with a variety of diagnoses.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Armstrong
authors.forename: F W
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Putnam
authors.forename: E B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Carlson
authors.forename: D Z
authors.initials: DZ
authors.lastname: Libero
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results