Hypnotizability, imaginative involvement, and anxiety |
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Authors: | OLAV VASSEND GJERMUND NYSVEEN |
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Institution: | Institute of Community Dentistry, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway;Dikemark Hospital, Asker, Norway |
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Abstract: | Forty-five undergraduate students were investigated to determine the relationship between hypnotizability, imaginative involvement (absorption), and anxiety responses. Hypnotizability was measured independently with the Creative Imagination Scale (CIS), and imaginative involvement was measured with the Absorption Scale (ABS). The results indicated moderate significant correlations between CIS, ABS, and several of the anxiety measures. In particular self-reported physiological aspects of anxiety/activation were associated with the CIS and the ABS. Three of the subjects reported having panic attacks. These subjects also exhibited high hypnotic responsiveness, and their scores on the ABS and several of the anxiety scales were considerably elevated as compared with the group mean level. |
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Keywords: | Hypnosis imagination anxiety panic attacks |
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