Abstract

GONZALEZ-ORDI, Héctor; VICENTE-COLOMINA, Aida de; CAPILLA-RAMIREZ, Pilar  and  SANTAMARIA-FERNANDEZ, Pablo. The assessment of suggestibility in emotional disorders. An exploratory study. Clínica y Salud [online]. 2018, vol.29, n.3, pp.139-145.  Epub Nov 02, 2020. ISSN 2174-0550.  https://dx.doi.org/10.5093/clysa2018a20.

The assessment of suggestibility and hipnotizability has become a valuable research line in the last decades. However, most studies have focused on general population, and there are limited and insufficient papers dealing with clinical simples. The aim of the present study was to evaluate general suggestibility in a sample of patients (n = 147) compared to a control (non-clinical) group (n = 57), by means of the adminitration of an inventory of suggestibility. Clinical sample participants showed higher levels of suggestibility (overall score) and higher levels of absorption, emotional suggestibility, and influence of others (subscales) than controls. By clinical groups, social anxiety, panic isorder, OCD, and PTSD groups scored higher in suggestibility than controls. These results have relevant implications for clinical practice.

Keywords : Suggestibility; Hypnotizability; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Obsessive-compulsive disorder; Panic disorder; Social anxiety.

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