The attentional resource allocation scale (ARAS): Psychometric properties of a composite measure for dissociation and absorption

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 775-786

  Carleton, R N ^a   Abrams, M P ^a   Asmundson, G J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Absorption; Attentional bias; Dissociation; Dissociative amnesia

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION SCALE; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; DISSOCIATION; DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA; DISSOCIATIVE EXPERIENCES SCALE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; STATISTICS; TELLEGEN ABSORPTION SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMNESIA; ATTENTION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956840781     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.20656     Document Type: Article

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