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Neuroticism, Extraversion and Hypnotizability
Author(s) -
HAMMER A. G.
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1963.tb00390.x
Subject(s) - neuroticism , extraversion and introversion , psychology , personality , big five personality traits , clinical psychology , social psychology
Furneaux and Gibson have claimed that although susceptibility to trance is not correlated with neuroticism or introversion‐extraversion, it is associated with particular combinations of scores on those two variables as measured by the Maudsley Personality Inventory. If this is so, it may be inferred that the second order interaction between neuroticism, introversion‐extraversion, and score on a hypnotizability inventory known to be correlated with trance susceptibility, will be significant. This is tested in a 3 times 3 × 3 contingency set‐up, the inference drawn from the Furneaux‐Gibson claim not being supported by the findings. An incidental finding is of a highly significant positive correlation between neuroticism and the hypnotizability questionnaire, but this must be viewed with caution since it was not predicted and could conceivably be accounted for by ‘impurities’ in the hypnotizability scale.