Merckelbach H, Boskovic I, Pesy D, Dalsklev M, Lynn S J
Forensic Psychology Section, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Forensic Psychology Section, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Conscious Cogn. 2017 Mar;49:132-144. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2017.01.007. Epub 2017 Feb 7.
We discuss a phenomenon that has received little attention to date in research on dissociative phenomena, namely that self-reports of these phenomena overlap with the tendency to overendorse eccentric items. We review the literature documenting the dissociation-overreporting link and then briefly discuss various interpretations of this link: (1) overreporting is an artifact of measuring dissociative symptoms; (2) dissociative psychopathology engenders overreporting of eccentric symptoms through fantasy proneness or impairments in internal monitoring; (3) an overreporting response style as is evident in malingerers, for example, promotes reports of dissociative symptoms. These three interpretations are not mutually exclusive. Also, the dissociation-overreporting link may have different origins among different samples. Because overreporting may introduce noise in datasets, we need more research specifically aimed at disentangling the dissociation-overreporting link. We suggest various avenues to accomplish this goal.
我们讨论一种在解离现象研究中迄今很少受到关注的现象，即这些现象的自我报告与过度认可怪异项目的倾向存在重叠。我们回顾了记录解离与过度报告之间联系的文献，然后简要讨论了对这种联系的各种解释：（1）过度报告是测量解离症状的一种人为现象；（2）解离性精神病理学通过幻想倾向或内部监测受损导致对怪异症状的过度报告；（3）例如，在诈病者中明显存在的过度报告反应风格会促使解离症状的报告。这三种解释并非相互排斥。此外，解离与过度报告之间的联系在不同样本中可能有不同的起源。由于过度报告可能会在数据集中引入噪声，我们需要更多专门旨在理清解离与过度报告之间联系的研究。我们提出了实现这一目标的各种途径。
