Development and validation of a measure of adolescent dissociation: the Adolescent Dissociative Experiences Scale.
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.
Armstrong
J G
JG
Psychology Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
Putnam
F W
FW
Carlson
E B
EB
Libero
D Z
DZ
Smith
S R
SR
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