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Background:

  • Dissociative symptoms are anecdotally and empirically linked to hyperassociativity.
  • Hyperassociativity may explain key features of dissociative conditions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between dissociative tendencies and hyperassociativity.
  • To explore this link in a college student population.

Main Methods:

  • 118 college students completed measures of dissociative tendencies, hyperassociativity, depressive experiences, unusual sleep experiences, cognitive failures, and alexithymia.
  • Hyperassociativity was assessed using various tasks, including associative fluency, flexibility, and remote association.

Main Results:

  • A positive association was found between dissociative experiences (depersonalization) and hyperassociativity on associative fluency and flexibility tasks.
  • This association was specific to verbal associations and did not extend to a remote association task.
  • Tentative evidence suggests cognitive failures and alexithymia mediate the link between hyperassociativity and dissociation.

Conclusions:

  • Depersonalization is linked to hyperassociativity in tasks involving free semantic associations.
  • Alexithymia and cognitive failures may explain this observed association.
  • Further research with replication could inform intervention studies for dissociative symptoms.