Development, Reliability, and Validity of a Dissociation Scale

Bernstein, E. M.; Putnam, Frank W.

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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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“…Thus, our non-clin i cal group was youn ger and com prised of more women than the clin i cal group. Past re search has shown sig nif i cant age ef fects on DES scores for youn ger peo ple (e.g., Bernstein & Putnam, 1986;Ross et al, 1989) and for women (e.g., Putnam et al, 1996). Psychopathological ef fects on the DES would be more dif fi cult to demon strate in this study and would in crease the power of sta tis ti cally signif i cant dif fer ences.…”

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“…The only self-re port in stru ment used to sys tem at i cally study the prev a lence of dissociative ex pe ri ences in the gen eral pop u la tion has been the Dissociative Ex pe ri ences Scale (DES). This in stru ment has been de vel oped in the United States (Bernstein & Putnam, 1986;Carlson & Putnam, 1993) and was used to mea sure the fre quency of 28 dissociative ex pe ri ences that are as pects of the dis so cia tion con struct (Putnam, 1991). The in stru ment was shown to be a valid and re li able screen ing in stru ment (Frischholtz et al, 1990;Waller, 1995) that in con junc tion with clin i cal di ag no sis has en abled the ac cumu la tion of data sup port ing the re li abil ity and va lid ity of the di ag no sis of DID and other DDs.…”

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

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Dolgin

Saadon³

2001

Journal of Trauma & Dissociation

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“…Dissociation was assessed with the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES; Bernstein & Putnam, 1986; Dutch version, Ensink & Van Otterloo, 1989) for negative (e.g. amnesia) and positive (e.g.…”

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Affect dysregulation, psychoform dissociation, and adult relational fears mediate the relationship between childhood trauma and complex posttraumatic stress disorder independent of the symptoms of borderline personality disorder

Dijke

Hopman

Ford

2018

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Objective: Complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) as defined by the Disorders of Extreme Stress Not Otherwise Specified (DESNOS) formulation is associated with childhood relational trauma and involves relational impairment, affect dysregulation, and identity alterations. However, the distinct contributions of relational impairment (operationalized in the form fears of closeness or abandonment), affect dysregulation (operationalized in the form of overregulation and under-regulation of affect), and identity alterations (operationalized in the form of positive or negative psychoform or somatoform dissociation) to the relationship between childhood trauma and CPTSD/DESNOS have not been systematically tested. Method and Results: In a clinical sample of adults diagnosed with severe and chronic psychiatric and personality disorders (n = 472; M = 34.7 years, SD = 10.1), structural equation modelling with bootstrap 95% confidence intervals demonstrated that the association between childhood trauma and CPTSD/DESNOS symptoms in adulthood was partially mediated by under-regulation of affect, negative psychoform dissociation, and adult relational fears of closeness and of abandonment. These results also were independent of the effects of borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptoms. Conclusions: Some, but not all, hypothesized components of the DESNOS formulation of CPTSD statistically mediate the relationship between childhood trauma and adult CPTSD/DESNOS. These relationships appear specific to CPTSD/DESNOS and not to the effects of another potential sequelae of childhood trauma BPD. Replication with prospective longitudinal studies is needed.

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“…Dissociation. Dissociation was measured using the Dissociative Experiences Scale II (DES II; Bernstein & Putnam, 1986). The DES-II is a widely used, 28 item, self report measure that assesses dissociative experiences.…”

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Effect of Family Configuration on Preadolescents' Decision-Making Competence

Yang¹

2012

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Development, Reliability, and Validity of a Dissociation Scale

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

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

Affect dysregulation, psychoform dissociation, and adult relational fears mediate the relationship between childhood trauma and complex posttraumatic stress disorder independent of the symptoms of borderline personality disorder

Effect of Family Configuration on Preadolescents' Decision-Making Competence

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