Abstract Mkid 83

The purpose of this study was to assess hypnosis, with African American college students, using the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A (HGSHS:A). Two hundred seventeen undergraduate African American students participated in this study. Students completed the HGSHS:A, a measure of hypnotic depth, the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES), the Inner Subjective Experiences scoring of the HGSHS:A, a measure of nonvolitional responding, and the Tellegen Absorption Scale (TAS). This sample was compared to other samples on the HGSHS:A. A one-way ANOVA did not find that the African American college sample differed from two European American college samples in terms of difficulty indices on items on the HGSHS:A; however, the reliability of the HGSHS:A for the African American college sample was lower than the other two American college samples, and these researchers suggest that the Inner Subjective Experiences method for scoring the HGSHS:A may be more appropriate for African American college students than the behaviorally scored items of the HGSHS:A.