Involvement in everyday imaginative activities, attitudes toward hypnosis, and hypnotic suggestibility.

Abstract

One hundred male and 83 female subjects were assessed on absorption (i.e., involvement in everyday imaginative activities), attitudes toward hypnosis, and hypnotic suggestibility. Significant positive correlations were obtained for both sexes between absorption and attitudes and between each of these variables and hypnotic suggestibility. Multiple regression analyses indicated that most of the predicted variance in hypnotic suggestibility scores was accounted for in both sexes by the absorption variable.

Absorption and attitude towards hypnosis: A moderator analysis

“…The present study was an attempt to replicate previous findings by Spanos and McPeake (1975) and to extend these findings to determine if' there was a significant interaction between these 2 factors in their relationship to susceptibility.…”

An Experimental Investigation of the Relationship between Hynotic Susceptibility and Reading Involvement

“…Other research has also tended to confirm the existence of small but significant correlations between the susceptibility to hypnotic procedures and the tendency to become involved, absorbed, "hypnotised," etc. in other situations in everyday life As, O'Hara and Munger, 1962;Coe, 1974;Shor, Orne and O'Connell, 1962;Spanos and McPeake, 1975;Tellegen and Atkinson, 1974). The present research attempts to study this relationship further by specifically looking at involvement in reading, which is one of Hilgard's "hypnotic," non-hypnotic, situations and by exploring a more controlled and immediate means of assessing such involvement.…”

“…A recent study employing a similar method to the one proposed above was that of Spanos and Ham (1975). They used the hypnotic dream suggestion as the involvement situation and asked their subjects to rate their involvement in the dream immediately afterwards.…”

Involvement in Suggestion-Related Imaginings and the “Hypnotic Dream”

“…Previous research concerning the construct "involvement in imaginings" has fulfilled the first and the third of these steps; that is, numerous objective and theoretically relevant indices of involvement in imagining have been developed, and each of these has been shown to correlate with various measures of hypnotic suggestibility J. Hilgard, 1970;Sarbin & Lim, 1963;Spanos & McPeake, 1975Tellegan& Atkinson, 1974). However, previous studies have not intercorrelated independent indices of involvement in order to demonstrate that different assessment procedures are, in fact, tapping a common psychological dimension.…”