Research suggests that the childhood experience most strongly associated with the development of dissociative identity disorder is __________.

A. severe sexual and/or physical abuse
B. harsh parenting in a single-parent household
C. becoming lost in a department store as a young child
D. loss of a parent at an early age


Answer: A

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