Check in: Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation

J Trauma Dissociation. 2006;7(2):77-106. The Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation (MID): A comprehensive measure of pathological dissociation. Dell PF. Trauma Recovery Center, Norfolk, VA, USA. *mod edit- email address removed*

This article describes the development and validation of the Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation (MID). The MID is a 218-item, self-administered, multiscale instrument that comprehensively assesses the phenomenological domain of pathological dissociation and diagnoses the dissociative disorders. The MID measures 14 major facets of pathological dissociation; it has 23 dissociation diagnostic scales that simultaneously operationalize (1) the subjective/ phenomenological domain of pathological dissociation and (2) the hypothesized dissociative symptoms of dissociative identity disorder (Dell, 2001a). The MID was designed for clinical research and for diagnostic assessment of patients who present with a mixture of dissociative, posttraumatic, and borderline symptoms. The MID demonstrated internal reliability, temporal stability, convergent validity, discriminant validity, and construct validity. The MID also exhibited incremental validity over the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) by predicting an additional 18% of the variance in weighted abuse scores on the Traumatic Experiences Questionnaire (TEQ). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) did not support a one-factor model of the MID's clinical scales (i.e., the 14 facets and the 23 diagnostic symptoms). In contrast, however, CFA of the MID's factor scales (Dell & Lawson, 2005) has strongly supported a one-factor model. It was concluded that both the MID's 168 dissociation items and the construct of pathological dissociation have a second-order, unifactorial structure.

Una+ wrote: I understood mood as referring to emotional climate whereas it was meant to refer to emotional weather. My T says my climate is stable from session to session but my weather is often extreme with rapid changes. Weeping one minute, laughing and cheerful the next. This is true. She say she sees this consistently in her DID clients and the variable affect is easy to mistake for bipolar disorder but it is totally different.

Una wrote:The Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation (MID) is a very detailed diagnostic inventory developed by Dr. Paul F. Dell and published in 2006. It is a self-administered pen-and-paper assessment. You can download and print the free PDF (link below).

lifelongthing wrote:That is wonderful Una+. I am happy to follow your journey on here.