DUS-10 – A Short Scale for Brief Assessment of the Level of Stress-Related Dissociation Symptomatology
Keywords:
Dissociation related to stress, DUS-10, analysis of metric characteristics, post-traumatic stress disorderAbstract
A short scale for brief assessment of the level of stress-related dissociation symptomatology has been designed. (DUS-10). The content of the scale’s measurement are memory, attention and emotional disturbances. This work presents empirical arguments to support the following theses: 1. the DUS-10 scale measures dissociative disturbances, 2. this scale measures stress-related dissociative disturbances, 3. the scale effectively measures stress-related dissociative disturbances and 4. the content of the DUS-10 scale measurement is a cluster of symptoms representing an important part of the clinical picture of an entity called posttraumatic stress disorder.
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