title: The adolescent dissociative experiences scale: psychometric properties and difference in scores across age groups.
abstract: Adolescence is thought to be a key developmental period for dissociative processes. However, there has been little empirical investigation of dissociation in adolescence. This paper reports the results of a study (N = 768) that investigated the psychometric properties of the Adolescent Dissociative Experiences Scale (A-DES) and compares dissociation scores across the adolescent age range (11 to 16 years). The A-DES had good internal reliability and a one-factor solution. No significant age or gender differences in A-DES scores were found. The implications of these findings for future research and theory are outlined.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, High- field, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Farrington
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Waller
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Smerden
authors.forename: A W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Faupel
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results