Twelve variables previously shown to predict hypnotic susceptibility were factor, analyzed. Six of them loaded on a common factor labeled “a positive set toward, imagining.” The items from two hypnotic susceptibility scales were also factor, analyzed, and fell into three factors (one “cognitive” and two motor factors)., Multiple regression analyses using the susceptibility scales and also the three, susceptibility factors as criterion variables indicated that most of the predicted, variance was accounted for by the predictor variables that loaded on the, “imaginative set” factor. Many of the predictor variables did not contribute, significantly to the prediction of the susceptibility measures. Moreover, a number of, predictors, that purportedly assess similar processes, failed to intercorrelate, significantly. Methodological and theoretical implications of these findings are, discussed.
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