Development and validation of a measure of adolescent dissociation: The Adolescent Dissociative Experiences Scale

This study describes the initial reliability and validity data on the Adolescent Dissociative Experiences Scale (A-DES).

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“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.”

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Armstrong, J. G., Putnam, F. W., Carlson, E. B., Libero, D. Z., & Smith, S. R. (1997). Development and validation of a measure of adolescent dissociation: The Adolescent Dissociative Experiences Scale. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 185(8), 491–497. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-199708000-00003