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. 2020 Feb 24;10:1011. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.01011

Table 2.

Voice hearing items in the Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation (MID).

Item Multidimensional Inventory
of Dissociation (MID)
Voice Hearing Questions
MID Voice Hearing
Category
SCH PER CHI INT POS
Q6 “Hearing the voice of a child in your head.” X
Q30 “Hearing voices in your head that argue or converse with one another.” X
Q42 “Hearing a voice in your head that tries to tell you what to do.” X X
Q84 “Hearing a voice in your head that wants you to hurt yourself.” X
Q97 “Hearing a lot of noise or yelling in your head.” X X
Q98 “Hearing voices, which come from unusual places (for example, the air conditioner, the computer, the walls, etc.), that try to tell you what to do.”
Q118 “Hearing voices crying in your head.” X
Q140 “Hearing a voice in your head that calls you names (for example, wimp, stupid, whore, slut, bitch, etc.)” X X
Q159 “Hearing a voice in your head that wants you to die.” X
Q171 “Hearing a voice in your head that calls you a liar or tells you that certain events never happened.” X X
Q199 “Hearing a voice in your head that tells you to ‘shut up'.” X X
Q207 “Hearing a voice in your head that calls you no good, worthless, or a failure.” X X
Q216 “Hearing a voice in your head that is soothing, helpful, or protective.” X

SCH, Schneiderian voices; PER, Persecutory voices; CHI, Child voices; INT, Voices of internal struggle; POS, Positive voices.