Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Valencia Scale on Attitudes and Beliefs Toward Hypnosis: An International Study

The aim of this study is to examine the effects of having personal experience and information about hypnosis over the beliefs and attitudes toward hypnosis, using a sample of students from Spain, United States, Portugal and Romania. The factor structure of the Revised Valencia Scale of Attitudes and Beliefs toward Hypnosis-Client Version, as well as its psychometric properties are also analyzed. An exploratory factor analysis of the scale was conducted and an 8-factor model solution similar to the one found in other versions of this scale was obtained: Help, Personal Control, Magical Solution, Interest, Collaboration, Fear, Memory/Trance and Marginal. Results also indicated that participants who had previously experienced hypnosis and/or based their knowledge of hypnosis on scientifi c sources scored, in general, higher in factors indicating positive attitudes and correct beliefs about hypnosis.

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“…Similar results were found in previous studies (Capafons et al, 2004;Capafons, Morales, et al, 2006;Carvalho et al, 2007).…”

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“…The Revised Valencia Scale of Attitudes and Beliefs toward Hypnosis-Client Version (Capafons et al, 2003;Capafons et al, 2004;Carvalho et al, 2007; see Appendix) consists of 37 items assessing beliefs and attitudes toward hypnosis. The items are rated on a 6-point scale from 'totally agree' (1) to 'totally disagree' (6).…”

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Attitudes and beliefs about hypnosis: A multicultural study

Capafons

Mendoza

Espejo

et al. 2008

Contemporary Hypnosis

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“…Oblique rotation was used because we started with the assumption that the variance in a given variable could be explained by a number of underlying common factors and that there would be some correlation among two or more of the factors being rotated (Pett, Lackey and Sullivan, 2003), as found in the analyses of other versions of the scale (Capafons et al, 2004;Capafons, Cabañas, Alarcón et al, 2006b). See Capafons et al (2004) for the content of the earlier 28-item version.…”

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“…This resulted in a 34 item version that measured eight attitudinal factors. Confi rmatory factor analysis confi rmed this 8-factor structure (Capafons, Cabañas, Espejo and Cardeña, 2004).…”

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confidence: 83%

“…In addition, attitudes toward hypnosis affect hypnotic suggestibility (Spanos, Brett, Menary and Cross, 1987) and are important in the development of therapeutic rapport (Capafons et al, 2003;Capafons, Cabañas, Alarcón, Espejo, Mendoza, Chaves and Monje, 2006a). The present study aims to establish the psychometrics properties and factorial structure of the revised client version of the Valencia Scale on Attitudes and Beliefs about Hypnosis -Client (Capafons et al 2003;Capafons, Cabañas, Espejo and Cardeña, 2004).…”

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confidence: 96%

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Factorial analysis and psychometric properties of the revised Valencia scale of attitudes and beliefs towards hypnosis‐client version

Carvalho

Capafons

Kirsch

et al. 2007

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Psychometric properties and factorial structure of the Revised Valencia Scale of Attitudes and Beliefs toward Hypnosis -Client Version using a Portuguese sample are presented. Exploratory factor analysis on a Portuguese population of undergraduate college students (N = 444) yielded 8 factors: 'Interest/Liking', 'Memory/Magic', 'Help', 'Control', 'Cooperation', 'Marginal', 'Fear' and 'Automaton'. The overall 8-factor structure is similar to the one found in the therapist version of the scale, and as in the therapist version, each factor of the client version showed good internal consistency and reliability. Differences among participants that had and had not experienced hypnosis previously were also assessed. The results indicated that participants with prior experience of hypnosis scored higher on factors indicating positive attitudes and accurate beliefs ('Interest/Liking', 'Help', 'Control' and 'Cooperation'), whereas participants that had not experienced hypnosis scored higher in factors indicating misconceptions about hypnosis ('Memory/Magic', 'Fear', 'Marginal' and 'Automaton'). These results indicate that the scale is sensitive to changes in attitudes and beliefs toward hypnosis brought about by the experience of hypnosis in a scientifi c context.

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Effects of different types of preparatory information on attitudes toward hypnosis

Capafons

Cabañas

Alarcón

et al. 2005

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This paper examines how attitudes of initially reluctant subjects towards hypnosis are influenced by three different approaches to introducing the topic. Participants (N = 90) were assigned to one of three experimental conditions: minimal information, cognitivebehavioural information and trance information. All three groups showed positive changes in attitudes toward hypnosis. Contrary to our expectations, positive attitudinal changes were not diminished for subjects exposed to trance information. Groups given trance and cognitive-behavioural explanations demonstrated significantly greater collaboration compared to the control group. No differences in hypnotic suggestibility were obtained.

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Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Valencia Scale on Attitudes and Beliefs Toward Hypnosis: An International Study

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Attitudes and beliefs about hypnosis: A multicultural study

Attitudes and beliefs about hypnosis: A multicultural study

Factorial analysis and psychometric properties of the revised Valencia scale of attitudes and beliefs towards hypnosis‐client version

Effects of different types of preparatory information on attitudes toward hypnosis

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