Child Rearing Antecedents of Hypnotic Susceptibility, 1963-1964

A longitudinal analysis was used to investigate the relationship between a follow-up measure of susceptibility and a large number of child rearing measures established during earlier studies of the same population. This study is a follow-up of Sears, Maccoby, and Levin's Patterns of Child Rearing, 1951-1958 (Log# 00235).

Of the 379 original participants who were five or six when their mothers were first interviewed in 1951-1952, 98 participated in this follow-up. At the time of the follow-up, all participants were high school seniors. Participants completed a measure of hypnotic susceptibility and a Personal Experience Questionnaire, which asks participants to indicate the frequency and intensity of 149 trance-like experiences.