Dissociative Experiences Scale

The Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) is a psychological self-assessment questionnaire that measures dissociative symptoms.

Dissociative Experiences Scale
Purpose	measures dissociate symptoms

Background

It contains twenty-eight questions and returns an overall score as well as four sub-scale results.^[1]

DES is intended to be a screening test, since only 17% of patients with scores over 30 will be diagnosed with having dissociative identity disorder.^[2] Patients with lower scores above normal may have other post-traumatic conditions.

The DES-II contains the same questions but with a different response scale.^[3]

See also

• Multiscale Dissociation Inventory
• Structured Clinical Interview for DSM