Top-down purification of Tobacyk’s Revised Paranormal Belief Scale

Lange, Rense; Irwin, Harvey J.; Houran, James

doi:10.1016/s0191-8869(99)00183-x

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“…However, the liberal criteria of inclusion allowed for the scale to be considered a reliable taxonomy of paranormal beliefs, enabling various other researchers to explore the structure of the RPBS in search of broader and theoretically more valid dimensions. The suggestions varied from five (Lawrence & De Cicco, 1997;, four (Hartman, 1999) and two (Lange et al, 2000), to even one latent factor . Unfortunately, all of these proposed structures have been poorly empirically tested, and for the most part without any theoretical explanation.…”

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Paranormal Beliefs and Personality Traits in Croatia

Mlačić

Milas

2012

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The goal of this study was to assess the relationship between the Five Factor Model of personality and the belief in the paranormal. Participants (N=307) were students from the University of Zagreb, Croatia. The measures used were the IPIP version of the Five Factor Model questionnaire (Goldberg et al., 2006) along with the Revised Paranormal Belief Scale (Tobacyk, 1988). The factor analysis of the latter yielded three previously unreported paranormal belief dimensions named: General paranormal belief, Traditional religious belief and Rituals and practices. The most significant personality correlations with all three factors were found for Openness, Conscientiousness and Neuroticism, respectively. Results to an extent confirmed previous findings, suggesting that open individuals accept more General paranormal beliefs, while rejecting Traditional religious belief. Conscientiousness displayed an opposite trend being positively related to Traditional religious beliefs and negatively to General paranormal beliefs. Finally, Neuroticism was related to Rituals and practices, i.e. superstitions, divinations and occult control of life outcomes. The relations are however modest ranging from 0.11 to 0.25. Both the novel paranormal belief structure and its significance to personality are discussed within an evolutionary perspective, with guidelines for further research highlighted in the end.

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Section: Paranormal Beliefs; Defining and Measuring An Elusive Conceptmentioning

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“…In the original study by Tobacyk and Milford (1983), the authors used varimax rotation in their analysis. However, due to subsequent criticism showing high scale intercorrelations, along with lack of theoretical explanation which would support the orthogonality (Lange et al, 2000; Tobacyk & Thomas, 1997).…”

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Paranormal Beliefs and Personality Traits in Croatia

Mlačić

Milas

2012

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“…Although this scale served to establish the definition of the transliminality concept, its measurement properties remain to be determined. For instance, its development relied heavily on items' correlations with their common factor, a technique that has known methodological drawbacks (Comrey, 1978;Panter, Swygert, Dahlstrom, & Tanaka, 1997;Lange, Irwin, & Houran, 2000), and the use of factor scores does not alleviate this problem (cf. Michell, 1990).…”

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The Revised Transliminality Scale: Reliability and Validity Data From a Rasch Top-Down Purification Procedure

Lange

Thalbourne

Houran

et al. 2000

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“…Further, the four-factor structure of the MQSUB bears some resemblance to the two-cluster solution of the RPBS found by Lange, Irwin, and Houran, (2000). Their first cluster, new-age philosophy, consisted of psi, future prediction, astrology, and astral travel, and so resembles the BSF scale, which includes items measuring belief in future prediction, spiritualism, and Psi (e.g., telepathy).…”

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Development and validation of the multi-dimensional questionnaire of scientifically unsubstantiated beliefs

Stone

McDermott

Abdi

et al. 2018

Personality and Individual Differences

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Objective: There are several existing questionnaires measuring paranormal or scientifically unsubstantiated beliefs but none cover a broad spectrum of cognitions while also being up-to-date and unconstrained by theoretical limitations. There is also a debate about the number of separate types of belief. Thereby, reported here is the development and validation of a new multidimensional questionnaire measure of scientifically unsubstantiated beliefs in the general UK population. Method & Results.In Study 1, participants (N=393) completed a questionnaire containing a pool of 82 items covering nine facets of belief discernible conceptually within the existing research literature. Scree analysis followed by exploratory factor analysis indicated the existence of four empirically observable factors: belief in supernatural forces; belief in God and destiny; belief in alien visitation, monsters and conspiracies; and belief in consciousness beyond the body.Twenty-four items were selected as measures of these factors. Studies 2, 3 and 4 demonstrated the convergent and divergent validity of the four empirically-derived questionnaire subscales and their internal reliability. Conclusion. The resultant new Multi-dimensional Questionnaire ofScientifically Unsubstantiated Beliefs (MQSUB) is a psychometrically robust measure and comprises a comprehensive framework which can be used to systematically investigate the psychological and social concomitants of such beliefs.2

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Top-down purification of Tobacyk’s Revised Paranormal Belief Scale

Cited by 131 publications

References 38 publications

Paranormal Beliefs and Personality Traits in Croatia

Paranormal Beliefs and Personality Traits in Croatia

The Revised Transliminality Scale: Reliability and Validity Data From a Rasch Top-Down Purification Procedure

Development and validation of the multi-dimensional questionnaire of scientifically unsubstantiated beliefs

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