Imagery is usually considered as a homogeneous construct, but this general term can be ascribed to three phenomena, namely cognitive style (visualizer vs. verbalizer), vividness of the imagery, and imagination immersion, that is, the tendency or proneness to immerse in imaginations in everyday life. In this study the differences among these three kinds of imagery related concepts have been discussed and the correlations among them have been investigated. Subsamples of 188 students, 158 women, and 30 men completed the Vividness of Visual Imagery Scale (Marks, 1973), the Vividness of Imagery Test (Gheorghiu, unpublished manuscript), the Verbalizer-Visualizer Questionnaire (Richardson, 1977), the Everyday Mental Activities Scale (see Appendix 1), the Tellegen Absorption Scale (Tellegen & Atkinson, 1974), the Dissociative Experiences Scale (Carlson & Putnam, 1993), and the Attentional Involvement Scale (Polczyk, in press). Correlational and factor analyses proved that that three kinds of individual traits related to imagery are only modestly correlated but nevertheless they relate to some general trait of imagery.
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