Among 88 women patients in an adult inpatient setting, 81% reported a history of sexual abuse physical abuse, or both. The scores on the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) and on the anxiety, hostility, and psychoticism scales of the Symptom Checklist 90-Revised (SCL 90-R) early in hospitalization were significantly higher among those who reported a history of abuse than among those who reported no such history. Also, those with a DSM-III-R diagnosis of a dissociative disorder had significantly higher scores on the DES. Reported abuse also was associated with higher scores on the borderline, antisocial, schizoid, and self-defeating personality disorder scales of the Personality Disorder Questionnaire (PDQ-R).
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