Unpacking the depersonalization syndrome: an exploratory factor analysis on the Cambridge Depersonalization Scale
Psychological Medicine October 1, 2005 Mauricio Sierra, Dawn Baker, Nicholas Medford et al.
Background. Depersonalization has long been considered a syndrome but there is poor agreement on its constituent symptoms.Method. In order to establish whether different symptoms of depersonalization represent the expression of a single or several underlying dimensions, an exploratory factor analysis on the Cambridge Depersonalization Scale (CDS) was carried out on 138 consecutive patients...