Confirmatory factor analysis of the Valencia Scale on Attitudes and Beliefs Toward Hypnosis: An international study

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis,  Apr 2005  

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Capafons, A., Cabanas, S., Espejo, B., & Cardena, E. (2004). Confirmatory factor analysis of the Valencia Scale on Attitudes and Beliefs Toward Hypnosis: An international study. International Journal of Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis, 52(4), 413-433. Cognitions held about hypnosis have an important impact on areas such as initial rapport and hypnotic-treatment compliance.

The Valencia Scale on Attitudes and Beliefs toward Hypnosis may be the first instrument specifically geared to the Spanish-speaking population. Besides measuring these cognitions, the scale can also help evaluate the effect of clinical and experimental manipulations on people's attitudes and beliefs toward hypnosis. The article presents a confirmatory factor analysis using a sample from 5 different countries (N = 2,402). Test-retest analyses were also carried out. The authors found statistical confirmation for an 8-factor model solution: automatism, help, personal control, interest, magical solution, collaboration, memory, and marginal.

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