Dissociative experiences, psychopathology and adjustment, and child and adolescent maltreatment in female college students.

Sandberg, David A.; Lynn, Steven Jay

doi:10.1037/0021-843x.101.4.717

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“…Among adult men and women in the general population as well as amongst college students, early sexual abuse has been linked with higher scores on dissociation (Irwin, 1994;Sandberg & Lynn, 1992). Recent findings also indicate that dissociation acts as a mediator between child abuse (i.e., sexual abuse, emotional abuse) and psychopathology such as eating disorders and various mental health outcomes (Kent, Waller, & Dagnan, 1999;Kisiel & Lyons, 2001).…”

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confidence: 94%

Family risk factors and prevalence of dissociative symptoms among homeless and runaway youth

Tyler

Cauce

Whitbeck

2004

Child Abuse & Neglect

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Objective: To examine family risk factors associated with dissociative symptoms among homeless and runaway youth. Method: Three hundred and twenty-eight homeless and runaway youth were interviewed using a systematic sampling strategy in metropolitan Seattle. Homeless young people were interviewed on the streets and in shelters by outreach workers in youth service agencies. Results: The current study revealed widespread prevalence of dissociative symptoms among these young people.Multivariate analyses revealed that sexual abuse, physical abuse, and family mental health problems were all positively associated with dissociative symptoms. No gender differences were found for any of the models. Conclusions: Dissociative behavior is widespread among these youth and may pose a serious mental health concern. Some young people experience numerous stressors, and with few resources and little support available, many may invoke maladaptive strategies such as dissociative behavior to handle such situations, which may in turn be detrimental to their mental health. Unless youth are provided with programs and intervention, the cycle of abuse that they have experienced at home is likely to continue on the street.

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confidence: 94%

Family risk factors and prevalence of dissociative symptoms among homeless and runaway youth

Tyler

Cauce

Whitbeck

2004

Child Abuse & Neglect

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“…The cur rent find ings from a Jew ish pop u la tion in the Mid dle East rep li cate the high de gree of re li abil ity and va lid ity of DES that has been dem on strated by pre vi ous stud ies con ducted in North Amer ica (Bernstein & Putnam, 1986;Ross et al, 1989;Frischoltz et al, 1990;Sandberg & Lynn, 1992;Dobester & Braun, 1995), the Neth er lands (Ensink & Van Otterloo, 1989), Tur key (Yargic, Tutkun, & Sar, 1995), Ja pan (Umesue et al, 1996), Ger many (Spitzer et al, 1998) and France (Darves-Bornoz, Gegiovanni, & Gaillard, 1999) as well as in a meta-ana lytic study (van Ijzendoorn & Schuengel, 1996). The ac cu mu lated data sug gest that dissociative ex pe ri ences are not North Amer i can culture-bound phe nom ena and that the con cept, orig i nally named in France at the end of the 19th cen tury (Janet, 1905;Van der Hart & Horst, 1989) re mains a valid psy cho log i cal con struct with cross-cul tural ap pli ca bility.…”

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Validation of the Hebrew Version of the Dissociative Experiences Scale (H-DES) in Israel

Somer¹,

Dolgin

Saadon³

2001

Journal of Trauma & Dissociation

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ABSTRACT. Ob jec tives :The pur pose of this re search was to ex plore the va lid ity of the con cept of dis so ci a tion as mea sured by a He brew version of the Dissociative Ex pe ri ences Scale (H-DES) in Is rael.De sign : The first study ex am ined the re li abil ity and va lid ity of the H-DES by as sess ing 340 con sec u tive ad mis sions to an Is raeli out pa tient clinic, and 290 non-clin i cal sub jects. The sec ond study ex plored the construct va lid ity of the con cept of dis so ci a tion by study ing re la tion ships be tween re ported past traumatization and cur rent lev els of dis so ci a tion among a dif fer ent co hort of 70 women Is raeli out pa tients.Re sults: The H-DES has good test-re test and split-half re li abil ity in clin i cal and non-clin i cal sub jects, and is in ter nally con sis tent. Its con vergent va lid ity with the MMPI 2 Philips Dis so ci a tion Scale is good, and it has good cri te rion-re lated va lid ity with DSM-IV dissociative dis or der di ag no ses. The con cept of dis so ci a tion as mea sured in Is rael by the H-DES has high re li abil ity and va lid ity. Con clu sions:The re li able iden ti fi ca tion of dis sociative ex pe ri ences in Is rael as well as in sev eral cul tures out side North Amer ica sup ports dis soci a tion as a valid psy cho log i cal con struct with wide spread cross-cul tural ap pli ca bil ity. This study con tra dicts claims that dis so ci a tion is merely a pass ing North Amer i can pro fes sional fash ion. Ad dress cor re spon dence to: Eli Somer, PhD, School of So cial Work, Uni ver sity of Haifa, Mt. Car mel, Haifa 31905, Is rael (E-mail: somer@re search.haifa.ac.il).

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“…Although dissociative phenomena obviously play an important role in schizophre nia, and although a relation between dissociation and psycholicism has been docu mented for college students [26,27] and although Schneiderian first-rank symptoms and dissociation levels are strongly related [12, 13. 28], these findings have never been closely examined.…”

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confidence: 99%

Dissociative Symptoms in Schizophrenic Patients with Positive and Negative Symptoms

1997

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Given the close historical relationship between schizophrenia and dissociative disorders, namely multiple personality disorder, we assessed 27 ICD-10 diagnosed schizophrenic inpatients for dissociative symptoms using the German version of the Dissociative Experience Scale and compared them to a nonclinical control group matched for gender and age. Other self-report instruments covering general psychopathology, and an expert rating on the predominance of positive or negative schizophrenic symptoms, were also administered. Schizophrenic patients have significantly more dissociative symptoms than controls. Moreover, patients with a plus type of schizophrenia show significantly higher levels of dissociation than patients mainly exhibiting less productive symptoms. However, dissociative phenomena are only significantly correlated with delusions and hallucinatory behavior, and do not show any correlation with other positive symptoms of schizophrenia. Severe dissociative psychopathology is also associated with impairment in other psychopathological dimensions. The implications of these findings are discussed with regard to the theory of dissociation, the differential diagnosis between schizophrenia and dissociative disorders and a possible contribution of dissociative phenomenology to the clinical heterogeneity of schizophrenia.

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Dissociative experiences, psychopathology and adjustment, and child and adolescent maltreatment in female college students.

Cited by 91 publications

References 27 publications

Family risk factors and prevalence of dissociative symptoms among homeless and runaway youth

Family risk factors and prevalence of dissociative symptoms among homeless and runaway youth

Validation of the Hebrew Version of the Dissociative Experiences Scale (H-DES) in Israel

Dissociative Symptoms in Schizophrenic Patients with Positive and Negative Symptoms

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