The relationship between different types of dissociation and psychosis-like experiences in a non-clinical sample

Humpston, Clara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5132-1531, Walsh, Eamonn, Oakley, David A., Mehta, Mitul A., Bell, Vaughan and Deeley, Quinton 2016. The relationship between different types of dissociation and psychosis-like experiences in a non-clinical sample. Consciousness and Cognition 41 , pp. 83-92. 10.1016/j.concog.2016.02.009

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Abstract

This study investigated whether detachment-type dissociation, compartmentalisation-type dissociation or absorption was most strongly associated with psychosis-like experiences in the general population. Healthy participants (N = 215) were tested with the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES, for detachment-related dissociative experiences); the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility (HGSHS: A, for dissociative compartmentalisation); the Tellegen Absorption Scale (TAS, for non-clinical ‘functional’ dissociative experience); and two measures of psychotic-like experiences, the 21-item Peters et al. Delusions Inventory (PDI-21) and the Cardiff Anomalous Perceptions Scale (CAPS). In multiple regression analyses, DES and TAS but not HGSHS: A scores were found to be significantly associated with PDI-21 and CAPS overall scores. A post hoc hierarchical cluster analysis checking for cluster overlap between DES and CAPS items, and the TAS and CAPS items showed no overlap between items on the DES and CAPS and minimal overlap between TAS and CAPS items, suggesting the scales measure statistically distinct phenomena. These results show that detachment-type dissociation and absorption, but not compartmentalisation-type dissociation are significantly associated with psychosis-like experiences in a non-clinical population.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) Psychology
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	1053-8100
Date of Acceptance:	12 February 2016
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2022 10:58
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/86919

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