RT Journal Article
T1 The psychometric properties of the DAIMON Scale, a translation from Spanish to English: an instrument to measure the relationship with and between voices
A1 Rosen, Cherise
A1 Chase, Kayla A.
A1 Perona-Garcelan, Salvador
A1 Marvin, Robert W.
A1 Sharma, Rajiv P.
K1 Auditory verbal hallucinations
K1 hearing voices
K1 dialogical
K1 relationship with voices
K1 assessment
K1 Auditory-verbal hallucinations
K1 Symptom rating-scales
K1 General-population
K1 Relating therapy
K1 Psychosis
K1 People
K1 Schizophrenia
K1 Perspectives
K1 Acceptance
K1 Dimensions
AB With recent emphasis placed on altering the relationship between the hearer and their voice(s) to decrease levels of distress, there is an increased need for psychological measures to evaluate clinical intervention outcomes. Currently, there are few such measures available. The DAIMON scale is designed to evaluate the dialogical aspects of the relationship of person to voice, voice to person, the emotional salience of this relationship and the dialogic relationship between voice(s). The purpose of the current study was to translate and adapt the DAIMON from Spanish to English and measure its psychometric properties for future use in a clinical population. Forty-four persons currently experiencing voices participated. The DAIMON English version (DAIMON-EV) demonstrated acceptable reliability and validity indices. The psychometric properties of the DAIMON-EV were found to be reliable, with the overall internal consistency of the measure and all subscale ordinal alpha scores ranging from 0.89 to 0.94. Concurrent validity of the DAIMON-EV was examined by the relation to the internal constructs of the PSYRATS-AVHs, VAY and the BAVQ-R. The integrity of the measure was maintained, and all items of the DAIMON-EV were shown to be a reliable measure of the assigned construct.
PB Routledge journals, taylor & francis ltd
SN 1752-2439
YR 2019
FD 2019-08-25
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/18929
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/18929
LA en
DS RISalud
RD Apr 15, 2025