[[recent Prospective Study]]

[[recent prospective study]] ~Chu & Dill 1 (1990); Kirby, Chu, & Dill 1 (1993); Waldinger, Swett, Frank, & Miller 1 (1994) [[Empirical research has demonstrated]] and in a [[recent prospective study]] Ogawa et al. 2 (1997) [[consistent associations between traumatic experience]] and [[biological and behavioral manifestations of dissociation]]. Moreover, these [[relations appear to be moderated by the frequency of the trauma]] and the [[developmental status of the individual]] at the [[time of traumatic exposure]]. [[Level of dissociation]] has been [[related to chronicity and severity of trauma]] in [[retrospective self-report studies]].