Abstract
AbstractThe mediator function of response expectancies and the moderator function of hypnotic and non‐hypnotic imaginative suggestibility were evaluated in the analogue treatment of pain. One hundred and sixty‐seven participants previously assessed for hypnotic and imaginative suggestibility were randomly assigned to distraction, cognitive‐behavioural package (i.e., Stress Inoculation Training), hypnotic cognitive‐behavioural package, hypnotic analgesia suggestion, placebo control, or no‐treatment control conditions. The four ‘active’ treatments reduced pain more than the no‐treatment control condition. There was no statistical difference in effectiveness between these four treatments, but only the cognitive‐behavioural package reduced pain more than the placebo control condition. Response expectancies partially mediated the effects of treatment on pain. Imaginative suggestibility, defined as a generalized tendency to respond to imaginative suggestions delivered outside of hypnosis, moderated the effects of the cognitive‐behavioural package. Contrary to prediction, neither hypnotic suggestibility, nor hypnotizability (operationalized as hypnotic suggestibility with imaginative suggestibility statistically controlled) moderated the effects of the hypnotic treatments. Copyright © 2003 British Society of Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis
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