PREDICTING HYPNOTIC-SUSCEPTIBILITY VIA A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH

The hypnotic susceptibility of 300 nursing students was predicted via an instrument called the Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory. The students experienced the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibili ty and subsequently completed the self-report inventory with reference to their experience of hypnosis. Regression analyses generated a mult iple R of.67 between subjects' susceptibility, as measured by the Harv ard scale, and their predicted susceptibility, based on the (sub)dimen sions of the inventory. Additional analyses gave a validity coefficien t of.61 between the Harvard scale scores of the subjects in the presen t study and their predicted scores, using regression coefficients obta ined in an earlier study. The results replicated previous research and suggest that the inventory may be a useful instrument in predicting h ypnotic susceptibility in a less obtrusive fashion than the Harvard sc ale.