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Development and validation of a measure of adolescent dissociation: the Adolescent Dissociative Experiences Scale
J G Armstrong1, F W Putnam, E B Carlson
1Psychology Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
|August 1, 1997
Abstract:
This study describes the initial reliability and validity data on the Adolescent Dissociative Experiences Scale (A-DES), a screening measure for pathological dissociation during adolescence. The A-DES showed good scale and subscale reliability, and, as hypothesized, increased scores were associated with reported trauma in a patient population. A-DES scores were able to distinguish dissociative disordered adolescents from a normal sample and from a patient sample with a variety of diagnoses.