title: Psychobiology of dissociation and its clinical assessment.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Dissociation is often defined as partial or total disconnection between memories of the past, awareness of identity and of immediate sensations, and control of bodily movements, often resulting from traumatic experiences, intolerable problems, or disturbed relationships. This type of reaction to a psychological and/or physical trauma has often various neurobiological consequences and its clinical assessment has received enormous interest in recent psychological and neuroscience research.
  
  
  METHODS
  Psychometric parameters of the Czech version of the Dissociative Experiences Scale were tested from the viewpoints of internal consistency, validity and factor structure, using data from a sample of n=783 adults, divided into three groups (epilepsy n=243, depression n=357, norm n=183), average age 39 years, SD=13.5.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Findings of this study demonstrated that reliability, validity and factor structure of the Czech version of the Dissociative Experiences Scale correspond to those of the original English version.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Czech version of the questionnaire may be considered a suitable tool for estimating subjectively experienced dissociative symptoms.
authors: Department of Psychiatry, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
authors: Radek
authors: R
authors: Ptacek
authors: Petr
authors: P
authors: Bob
authors: Ivo
authors: I
authors: Paclt
authors: Josef
authors: J
authors: Pavlat
authors: Denisa
authors: D
authors: Jasova
authors: Petr
authors: P
authors: Zvolsky
authors: Jiri
authors: J
authors: Raboch
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis; D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology*; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011581:Psychological Tests; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires