Psychological characteristics of dissociation in general population

  1. Ángeles Serrano Sevillano 1
  2. Héctor González Ordi 2
  3. Beatriz Corbí Gran 3
  4. Miguel Ángel Vallejo Pareja 1
  1. 1 National Distance Education Univ
  2. 2 Complutense Univ
  3. 3 Villanueva Univ
Revista:
Clínica y salud: Investigación Empírica en Psicología

ISSN: 1130-5274

Año de publicación: 2017

Volumen: 28

Número: 3

Páginas: 101-106

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1016/J.CLYSA.2017.09.003 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: Clínica y salud: Investigación Empírica en Psicología

Resumen

La disociación se define como la separación de procesos que deberían ser accesibles, considerándose que los síntomas somatomorfos y conversivos pueden entenderse como disociativos. En las últimas décadas se han encontrado variables psicológicas relacionadas con la disociación, como la sugestionabilidad, la fantasía, alexitimia, alteraciones en los procesos emocionales y un perfil concreto de personalidad. El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar el perfil asociado a la disociación psicoforme y somaforme. La muestra estuvo compuesta por 355 participantes. El muestreo consistió en la bola de nieve por parte de estudiantes universitarios. Para su realización se utilizó la Escala de Experiencias Disociativas-II (DES-II), el Cuestionario de Disociación Somatoforme (SDQ-20), el Inventario de Sugestionabilidad (IS), la Escala de Alexitimia de Toronto (TAS-20), la Escala de Dificultades en la Regulación Emocional (DERS), el Inventario de Personalidad NEO revisado (NEO-PI) y preguntas elaboradas ad hoc para evaluar experiencias relacionadas con el sueño. Los sujetos con elevada disociación mostraron mayores puntuaciones en sugestionabilidad, alexitimia, experiencias de sueño, neuroticismo y apertura y menores en responsabilidad, de forma muy similar al grupo de sujetos de elevada somatización. Puede concluirse que el perfil hallado en ambos tipos de disociación refleja la relación existente entre ambas y señala posibles líneas de investigación y tratamiento futuros.

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