The assessment of dissociative experiences in a non-clinical population: Reliability, validity, and factor structure of the dissociative experiences scale

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 699-706

  Holtgraves, Thomas ^a   Stockdale, Gary ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0031138638     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(96)00252-8     Document Type: Article

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