Relationship between two different types of imagery vividness questionnaire items and three Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale factors: a brief communication.

Abstract

Abstract 122 Ss were administered the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A (HGSHSA) of Shor and E. Orne (1962), the Tellegen Absorption Scale (Tellegen & Atkinson, 1974), and 2 tape-recorded questionnaires on vividness of mental imagery. On 1 imagery questionnaire the items were impersonal, objective visual scenes (MIQ:VS), whereas on the other questionnaire the items involved discrete personal actions which elicited a combination of visual and kinesthetic imagery (MIQ:PA). Imagery vividness scores from both questionnaires correlated significantly with hypnotizability scores. M1Q:VS vividness scores were better than MIQ:PA vividness scores at predicting cognitive factor item scores of HGSHS:A, but not ideomotor or challenge factor items scores. Multiple correlations involving MIQ:VS vividness and the Tellegen Absorption Scale predicted cognitive factor scores better than ideomotor or challenge factor scores.