Predictors of Dissociative Experiences Among Adolescents in Nepal
- 12 September 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
- Vol. 207 (11), 958-968
- https://doi.org/10.1097/nmd.0000000000001057
Abstract
In recent years, many adolescents in Nepal have been affected by episodes of mass psychogenic illness, which seem to involve dissociative symptoms. To identify the potential contributors to dissociation, the present study examined correlates of dissociative experiences among adolescents in Nepal. In a cross-sectional survey, 314 adolescents were assessed with the Adolescent Dissociative Experiences Scale and measures of childhood trauma exposure, as well as cognitive and personality traits found to be associated with dissociation in studies on other populations. Path analysis confirmed that childhood trauma, cognitive and personality traits, and current distress each predicted dissociative experiences and behaviors. However, an integrated path model found that the effect of childhood trauma on dissociation was mediated either by posttraumatic stress symptoms or by cognitive failures. Future studies should develop and test multifactorial models of dissociation and multiple pathways.This publication has 103 references indexed in Scilit:
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