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The undertaken study consisted of an investigation for the relationship of selected demographics to attitudes toward hypnosis in four independent samples of people exiting four large local supermarkets. Attitudes were measured using The Attitude Toward Hypnosis Questionnaire (Spanos, Brett, Menary & Cross, 1987) which assesses attitudes toward hypnosis in three basic areas: a) positive beliefs about hypnosis; b) degree of fear concerning being hypnotised; and c) beliefs about the mental stability of hypnotizable people. The demographic variables examined in the study were: a) age; b) religion; c) marital status, d) yearly income; and e) educational background.

Rationale and Significance of the Study

Reasons offered in the existing literature for public negativism toward hypnosis and hypnotherapy are diverse. For example, Large and James (1991) ascribe the negativism to media portrayals and stage show performances which induce apprehension and anxiety about the hypnotic process and state. Daglish and Wright (1991), on the other hand, state that the neg

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and being hypnotized increases with score value. For the subscales, high scores are associated with more positive attitude toward the hypnotic process, less fear of being hypnotized, and less belief in the notion that hypnotizable people are mentally unstable. It should also be noted that the use of a summated rated scale can be considered to yield equal interval data (see Lapin, 1980). This means that the test instrument yields data at a level which is amenable to analysis using parametric statistical procedures such as the analysis of variance, or t-test. Data Analysis Plan Tests of the study's null hypotheses were conducted using the analysis of variance technique in which the overall attitude score, the positive beliefs subscale score, the fear of being hypnotized subscale score, and the mental stability subscale score were each compared across all levels of the five demographic variables. This means that a total of 4 by 5 or 20 statistical analyses will be conducted. The analysis of variance was selected for several reasons. Table 1 Attitude Toward Hypnosis Questionnaire Please u
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