title: Multiple predictors of hypnotic susceptibility.
abstract: In this article, we report two experiments in which various measures thought to be related to hypnotizability were analyzed by stepwise discriminant analysis techniques. Absorption (Tellegen, 1981, 1982; Tellegen & Atkinson, 1974) and preference for an imagic style of thinking (Isaacs, 1982) were robust predictors of hypnotizability; each variable accounted for significant variance in hypnotizability at their respective steps in two samples and correctly classified a significant proportion of low- and high-hypnotizable subjects in the discriminant analyses. The addition of two other variables in Experiment 2--a Sleep-Dream score derived from Evans's (1977) Cognitive Control of Sleep Mentation subscale and Gibson's (1985) Dream Questionnaire, and the Belief in the Supernatural subscale of the Taft (1969) Experience Questionnaire--increased the correct classification of the medium-hypnotizable subjects from chance levels to 74%. It is argued that a confirmatory and hierarchical approach is needed in future studies to explore correlates of hypnotizability more fully.
authors: Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Nadon
authors: J R
authors: JR
authors: Laurence
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Perry
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests; D013404:Suggestion; D013850:Thinking