The Imagination Inventory and its correlates with imagery and hypnotizability.
Presented are two studies designed to establish the psychometric properties (Study 1) of the Imagination Inventory (II; Barber and Wilson, 1979), and (Study 2) to examine the relation between subscales derived by factor analysis and measures of hypnotizability: (HGSHS:A; Shor and Orne, 1962), and the Depth of Hypnosis Index (DHI), as well as waking imagination (CIS; Wilson and Barber, 1978). Testing a sample of 459 Polish students, it was found that rationally derived scales developed by Barber and Wilson (1979) failed to parallel the factor structure derived from empirical procedure. The cross-cultural validity of the II was supported by low-to-moderate correlations with the HGSHS:A and the CIS.
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Jagiellonian University, Poland.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology