Israeli Norms for the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale,Form C |
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| Authors: | Pesach Lichtenberg Haim Shapira Yuval Kalish Eitan G. Abramowitz |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Herzog Hospital and the Hadassah Medical School of the Hebrew University , Jerusalem, Israel licht@cc.huji.ac.il;3. Wolfson Medical Center , Holon, Israel;4. University of Melbourne , Victoria, Australia;5. Mental Health Division , Israel Defense Forces , Israel |
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| Abstract: | A Hebrew version of the 12-item Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale, Form C (SHSS:C) was administered to 169 subjects in Israel. The authors compared the results with those obtained for the English original administered in the USA and with an additional group of 38 English-speaking subjects in Israel, as well as with versions translated into Spanish (2 versions, for Spain and for Mexico), Italian, German, and Dutch. Mean scores and pair-wise rank-order correlations between item pass rates were comparable across the different samples. Item reliability was somewhat lower in the Hebrew version; however, if testing was discontinued after failure to comply with 3 consecutive items, reliability was similar to that obtained for the other samples. We conclude that the Hebrew version of the SHSS:C can be used for the assessment of hypnotizability and recommend that the discontinuation criterion be applied. |
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