IMAGINATION, COGNITION AND PERSONALITY, Vol. 21(2) 145-157, 2001-2002 THE DISSOCIATIVE EXPERIENCES SCALE-II: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS, FACTOR ANALYSIS, AND FREQUENCY OF EXPERIENCES* NANCY L. ZINGRONE CARLOS S. ALVARADO Centro de Estudios Integrales de Puerto Rico ABSTRACT Psychometric aspects of the Dissociative Experiences Scale-II were studied with 308 American community college students. The overall DES mean was 21.70. Item-corrected correlations ranged from .30 to .62. The scale’s Cronbach Alpha was .92. There were no significant correlations between DES scores and sex or religiosity. Age was negatively and significantly correlated to DES scores (r = –.24). A factor analysis showed only a single factor. Descriptive statistics of the DES-T were also presented. We obtained a mean of 13.81 and a Cronbach Alpha of .75. The DES-T was significantly correlated to the rest of the scale (r = .79), and to the age of the participants (r = –.22). The findings show that the DES II has good inner consistency. In recent years many studies have been published in which the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES [1]) has been used to measure the frequency of disso- ciative experiences (for reviews see [2, 3]). This scale has been shown to be both valid and reliable in research designed to test its psychometric properties [4-8]. However, the scoring of the scale is slow and cumbersome because responses must be measured with a ruler along a 100 cm. response continuum. This is especially so *This article was written while the authors enjoyed research grants from the Institut fhr Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene. 145 Ó 2002, Baywood Publishing Co., Inc.