Dissociation among swedish adolescents and the connection to trauma: An evaluation of the Swedish version of adolescent dissociative experience scale

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 194, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 684-689

  Nilsson, Doris ^a   Svedin, Carl Göran ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

A DES; Adolescents; Dissociation; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISSOCIATIVE EXPERIENCE SCALE; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING TEST; SELF REPORT; SWEDEN; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 33748773044     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000235774.08690.dc     Document Type: Article

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