NORMS OF HYPNOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY IN CHILDREN

240 children, including 10 boys and girls at each yr. level from 5-16 were selected as a standardization sample for the Children's Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale from 303 children selected from the public school population of a small city. Distributions of susceptibility scores by 3 different scoring methods were almost identical for both the 240 children and the remaining 63. Reliabilities were satisfactorily high, as indicated by retesting 201 children after 1 wk. There were no sex differences whatsoever. Age bears a complex curvilinear relationship to susceptibility, with children under 7 getting the lowest mean scores. Comparison of comparable items with the standardization sample of the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scales shows that children are generally more susceptibile to hypnosis than adults. (22 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). © 1969 American Psychological Association.