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Investigating the Construct Validity of the Dissociative Taxon: Stability Analyses of Normal and Pathological Dissociation
2003
DOI: 10.17077/4y2e-j1g2
Abstract
Previous research has suggested the existence of a pathological dissociative taxon. However, relatively little is known about this taxon. This study examined the two-month retest stability of this taxon—together with other measures of dissociation and the Big Five—in a sample of 465 undergraduates. Contrary to expectation, taxon scores were only modestly stable and were substantially less stable than the other measures, including continuous indicators of dissociation. Furthermore, most individuals who were identified as taxon members at one assessment were classified as non-members at the other. These results challenge the existence of a pathological dissociative taxon. More generally, these data demonstrate that statistically-identified taxa need to be explicated through the normal process of construct validation.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Investigating the Construct Validity of the Dissociative Taxon: Stability Analyses of Normal and Pathological Dissociation
- Creators
- David Watson - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Accepted manuscript
- DOI
- 10.17077/4y2e-j1g2
- Number of pages
- 29 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright © American Psychological Association, 2003. This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record. Posted by permission.
- Language
- English
- Date copyrighted
- 2003
- Date posted
- 03/26/2009
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9983557600302771
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