Psychometrics of Three Dissociation Scales: Reliability and Validity Data on the DESR, DES-II, and DESC

Arzoumanian, Meline A.; Verbeck, E. Grace; Estrellado, Jan E.; Thompson, Kenneth J.; Dahlin, Kristen; Hennrich, Emily J.; Stevens, Jessica M.; Dalenberg, Constance J.

doi:10.1080/15299732.2022.2119633

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“…Participants were instructed to select the percentage of time they have each dissociative experience, ranging from 0 ( never ) to 100 ( always ) by 10 s. The DES-II is scored by averaging the responses for all 28 items, with a cutoff score of 30 indicating the probable presence of a dissociative disorder. Previous research indicates the DES-II has strong reliability (e.g., Arzoumanian et al, 2023; Carlson & Putnam, 1993; Wright & Loftus, 1999). In the current study, the DES-II demonstrated excellent internal consistency (α = .99).…”

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Peritraumatic tonic immobility and posttraumatic symptoms among LGBTQ+ versus straight cisgender female sexual assault survivors.

Morabito,

Ebert,

Bedford

et al. 2024

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

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confidence: 99%

Peritraumatic tonic immobility and posttraumatic symptoms among LGBTQ+ versus straight cisgender female sexual assault survivors.

Morabito,

Ebert,

Bedford

et al. 2024

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

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“…The mean score across items is taken, for a minimum score of 0 and a maximum of 100, with higher scores indicating a greater extent of dissociative experiences. Cronbach's alpha for the DES-II has been reported as 0.93, and the testretest reliability as r = 0.89 (Arzoumanian et al, 2022). Cronbach's Alpha calculated with our data was α = 0.93.…”

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The relationship between transliminality, hypnotic and imaginative suggestibility, and other personality traits.

Irving¹,

Nikolova²,

Robinson³

et al. 2023

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Transliminality may be considered as the tendency for an individual to experience a blurring of boundaries between unconscious and conscious states. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between transliminality, suggestibility (hypnotic and imaginative) and a range of other personality traits. Despite several hypotheses being proposed on the relationship between transliminality and hypnotisability, no empirical study has directly examined this link before. The assumption is that high transliminality, which relates to thin boundaries and the potential for information to flow more easily in a bi-directional manner between subconsciousness and consciousness, will be associated with suggestibility (and in particular hypnotic suggestibility and subjective experiential responses to suggestion).In the present study, participants (n=456) completed online a set of self-report personality questionnaires, where 4 scales were administered: The Revised Transliminality Scale, The Tellegen Absorption Scale, the Creative Experiences Questionnaire, and the Dissociative Experiences Scale II. To avoid context effects, in a separate and stand-alone study, hypnotic and imaginative suggestibility screenings were conducted using the Carleton University Responsiveness to Suggestion Scale (imaginative suggestibility, n = 328; hypnotic suggestibility, n=243). Of those people who completed both the online personality questionnaires and the in-person suggestibility screening, and whose data could be merged, 140 had done the imaginative suggestibility screening, and 127 had done the hypnotic suggestibility screening.Transliminality was found to be weakly correlated with the imaginative suggestibility subjective response measure (r = .19). Likewise, weak correlations were found between transliminality and the hypnotic suggestibility response measures (objective, r = .21, subjective, r = .23, involuntariness, r = .24). The results of forward multiple regression modelling reflected the observed pattern of correlations, with no model for any of the variables, including more than a single significant predictor. Transliminality served as a significant predictor for the subjective imaginative suggestibility measure, and for both the hypnotic suggestibility objective and subjective measure. In summary, this study, which avoided context effects (between the personality questionnaires and the suggestibility screenings) and which assessed suggestibility using a number of measures (hypnotic, imaginative; objective, subjective, involuntariness response), shows transliminality to be a weak predictor of response to suggestion. The pattern of correlations points towards transliminality being more closely linked to hypnotic rather than imaginative suggestibility, and to be associated more with experiential as opposed to objective measures of response to suggestion.

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The Detection of Invalid Responses Using the Dissociative Experiences Scale-V (DES-V)

Thompson,

Katz,

Mecum

et al. 2024

Journal of Trauma & Dissociation

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Psychometrics of Three Dissociation Scales: Reliability and Validity Data on the DESR, DES-II, and DESC

Cited by 4 publications

References 32 publications

Peritraumatic tonic immobility and posttraumatic symptoms among LGBTQ+ versus straight cisgender female sexual assault survivors.

Peritraumatic tonic immobility and posttraumatic symptoms among LGBTQ+ versus straight cisgender female sexual assault survivors.

The relationship between transliminality, hypnotic and imaginative suggestibility, and other personality traits.

The Detection of Invalid Responses Using the Dissociative Experiences Scale-V (DES-V)

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