Related Experiment Videos
The relationship between absorption, openness to experience, anhedonia, and susceptibility
1Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
The International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
|January 1, 1991
Summary
The Tellegen Absorption Scale (TAS) and openness to experience correlate with hypnotic susceptibility. However, anhedonia does not, suggesting their conceptual relationship lies beyond hypnotic susceptibility.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Personality Psychology
- Hypnosis Research
Background:
- The Tellegen Absorption Scale (TAS) is reliably related to hypnotic susceptibility.
- Openness to experience (OTE) and anhedonia (ANH) scales may be conceptually linked to TAS.
- Investigating OTE and ANH as potential personality correlates of hypnotic susceptibility is warranted.
Purpose of the Study:
- To assess the relationships between TAS, OTE, and ANH scales and hypnotic susceptibility.
- To determine if OTE and ANH are personality correlates of hypnotic susceptibility.
- To explore the conceptual relationship among TAS, OTE, and ANH in relation to hypnosis.
Main Methods:
- Two studies were conducted with a community sample and a university student sample.
- Participants completed the TAS, OTE, and ANH scales.
- Hypnotic susceptibility was assessed in relation to these personality measures.
Main Results:
- In both samples, TAS and OTE were positively correlated, and both were negatively correlated with ANH.
- Only TAS showed a significant correlation with hypnotic susceptibility across both studies.
- Factor analyses supported the observed correlational patterns.
Conclusions:
- The conceptual relationship among TAS, OTE, and ANH scales exists, but not through hypnotic susceptibility.
- TAS is a significant correlate of hypnotic susceptibility.
- OTE and ANH are not significant correlates of hypnotic susceptibility in this context.