Clinical, cognitive, creativity and cultural measures in dissociative identity disorder: A controlled study

IF 4.2 2区医学 Q1 PSYCHIATRY

Psychiatry Research Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI:10.1016/j.psychres.2025.116407

Aikaterini Ι. Strouza , Eline M. Vissia , Yolanda R. Schlumpf , Eugenie del Marmol , Ellert R.S. Nijenhuis , Nel Draijer , D.J. Veltman , Antje A.T.S. Reinders

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Abstract

Background

Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is associated with severe clinical and cognitive debilitating psychopathology. Additionally, it is often thought that creativity and cultural differences contribute to DID's symptomatology. Thus, the present study aimed to expand previous empirical data by investigating differences in clinical, cognitive, creativity and cultural measures between two distinct samples in order to gain a better insight into this disorder.

Methods

Clinical, cognitive and creativity self-reported measures of 97 participants from The Netherlands and Switzerland were compared between two groups: 32 participants with DID and a control group of 65 controls.

Results

Participants with DID scored significantly higher than the control group on the majority of clinical and creativity scales, but not on the cognitive measures.

Conclusion

Outcomes indicate heightened dissociative, depressive and anxiety symptomatology, as well as increased traumatic experiences, parental affectionate control and sleep disturbances in individuals with DID as compared to controls. These findings replicate and corroborate previous empirical findings and support the Trauma Model of DID. No cultural differences were observed between Dutch and Swiss individuals with DID.

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Psychiatry Research 医学-精神病学

CiteScore

17.40

自引率

1.80%

发文量

527

审稿时长

57 days

期刊介绍： Psychiatry Research offers swift publication of comprehensive research reports and reviews within the field of psychiatry. The scope of the journal encompasses: Biochemical, physiological, neuroanatomic, genetic, neurocognitive, and psychosocial determinants of psychiatric disorders. Diagnostic assessments of psychiatric disorders. Evaluations that pursue hypotheses about the cause or causes of psychiatric diseases. Evaluations of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic psychiatric treatments. Basic neuroscience studies related to animal or neurochemical models for psychiatric disorders. Methodological advances, such as instrumentation, clinical scales, and assays directly applicable to psychiatric research.