The Attentional Resource Allocation Scale (ARAS): psychometric properties of a composite measure for dissociation and absorption
Depression and Anxiety February 23, 2010 R. Nicholas Carleton, Murray P. Abrams, Gordon J. G. Asmundson 42 citations
BACKGROUND: Differences in attentional processes have been linked to the development and maintenance of psychopathology. Shifts in such processes have been described by the constructs Dissociation and Absorption. Dissociation occurs when external and/or internal stimuli are excluded from consciousness due to discrepant, rather than unitary, manifestations of cognitive awareness [Erdelyi MH....