TY - JOUR AU - Green, Joseph P. AU - Lynn, Steven Jay AU - Green, Olivia J. AU - Bradford, Victoria R. AU - Rasekhy, Rouhangiz PY - 2020 DA - 2020/05/11 TI - Hypnotic Responsiveness and Dissociation: A Multi-Variable Analysis JO - OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine SP - 029 VL - 05 IS - 02 AB - Since Charcot [1], researchers and theorists have associated hypnotic responsiveness with dissociation. However, contemporary researchers have typically not documented impressive or statistically significant correlations between the most commonly used measure of dissociation, the Dissociative Experiences Scale-II [2, 3] and hypnotic responsiveness. We examined the ability of two measures of non-pathological dissociation, which have received scant attention in the hypnosis literature, the Wessex Dissociation Scale (WDS; [4]) and the Dissociative Processes Scale (DPS; [5]), in the context of a broader investigation of predictors of hypnotic responsiveness including expectancies, fantasy-proneness, absorption, and an index of more serious dissociative experiences and symptoms in a sample of undergraduate students. Scales of non-pathological dissociation and most measures of pathological dissociation did not correlate significantly with hypnotic responsiveness; however, stepwise regression analyses predicting HGSHS:A behavioral and subjective scores retained the Detachment factor of the DPS in the final model, along with expectancies and absorption. We present our findings in the context of a broader discussion of dissociation and hypnosis. SN - 2573-4393 UR - https://doi.org/10.21926/obm.icm.2002029 DO - 10.21926/obm.icm.2002029 ID - Green2020 ER -