TY - JOUR
T1 - Israeli norms for the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale, Form C
AU - Lichtenberg, Pesach
AU - Shapira, Haim
AU - Kalish, Yuval
AU - Abramowitz, Eitan G.
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript submitted December 13, 2007; final revision accepted April 19, 2008. 1This work was partly supported by a gift to Herzog Memorial Hospital from the Maury and Florence Rosenblatt Fund. 2Address correspondence to Pesach Lichtenberg, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Herzog Hospital, P.O. Box 3900, Jerusalem 91035, Israel. E-mail: [email protected]
PY - 2009/4
Y1 - 2009/4
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1080/00207140802665492
DO - 10.1080/00207140802665492
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AN - SCOPUS:61649108160
SN - 0020-7144
VL - 57
SP - 227
EP - 237
JO - International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
JF - International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
IS - 2
ER -