A free translation of Sallust's Catiline followed, omitting, however, the larger part of chapters 1-15, and condensing speeches and descriptions.
Importantly, this was true even when items with potentially overlapping content were removed from the DES and VISQ, and highlighted a range of direct and indirect effects of inner speech, with other people in inner speech being fully mediated, evaluative inner speech partially mediated, and condensed inner speech appearing to show a small but unmediated effect.
If the presence of specific types of inner speech was defined as positive endorsement of the majority of items on each subscale (i.e., a response of 4 or higher), 80.1% of participants reported dialogic inner speech, 87.2% reported evaluative inner speech, 22.4% reported other people in inner speech, and 28.2% reported condensed inner speech.
Indirect effects on LSHS, via dissociation, were observed for other people in inner speech, p = .004 and evaluative inner speech, p = .006, but not condensed inner speech, p = .615.615
Direct effects on AH-proneness were observed for dissociation, p = .004, other people in inner speech, p = .042, and condensed inner speech, p = .025.025
Dissociation scores significantly predicted AH-proneness, β = .367, p < .001, while VISQ predictors were only evident at the level of trends for other people in inner speech, β = .134, p = .078, and condensed inner speech, β = −.130, p = .066.066
Bootstrap analysis yielded similar direct effects for DES (p = .004) and condensed inner speech (p = .033) on hallucination proneness, alongside a new direct effect for evaluative inner speech (p = .028).028
For anyone who wants something shorter, The Times has condensed the speech in a way that keeps its main themes.
Given that some of the direct effects were only evident in the SEM and not in the hierarchical regression (particularly concerning condensed inner speech), these relations should be interpreted with caution and require further replication.
He used the last few weeks before his big moment to nip, tuck and condense the speech from about 4,300 words to about 3,900, even though the former length was well within the range of convention tradition.
