We examined the factor structure and internal consistency of the Spanish version of the Gordon Test of Visual Imagery Control, as well as the correlations with scores on the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire and the Verbalizer-Visualizer Questionnaire, for a sample of 479 undergraduates. Principal components analysis, followed by varimax orthogonal rotation, identified the expected four factors (Movement, Misfortune, Colour, and Stationarity), which jointly explained 55% of the variance. The Gordon Test had a Cronbach α value of .69 and correlated significantly with scores on Marks' Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire.
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