Turkish adaptation of Dissociative Subtype of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Scale

After the changes in DSM-V, dissociative subtype was added to post traumatic stress disorder. Wolf and colleagues developed a scale named Dissociative Subtype of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (DSPS) to measure this subtype and help the diagnosis. The purpose of this study is to adapt Dissociative Subtype of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to Turkish, examine its reliability and validity. For this purpose, scale was translated to Turkish and applied to 300 people from non clinical population both via online survey and face to face application. It's a self report scale consists 15 questions. Every question has stages, if a person answeres "Yes" to a first, symptomatic question, then its frequency and severity is questioned. Scales internal consistency examined and a good score was obtained (α=,84). This scale has three factors as psychogenic amnesia, depersonalization/derealisation and loss of awareness. From these subscales, good reliability scores were obtained also. Besides, items were loaded to the factors the same as the original study. Most of the questions were loaded to Depersonalization/Derealization subscale. By conducting this study, it was aimed to adapt a new scale to Turkish and prepare a basis to the researchers among this area.