Personality types and superstitions

Pages: 546-548
Nisha Dilip Mundada (Department of Psychology & Career Counseling Centre Pachora, North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon SSMM Arts, Science & Commerce, College Pachora. Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India.)

This study analyses the relationship between superstition & introvert / extrovert personality of 200 college students, 100 from Pachora City (Urban) & 100 from Rural Area (villages of Pachora Taluka) from Maharashtra State in India. Dubay and Dixit’s Superstition Scale and Neymen-Kohlsted Diagnostic Test for Introversion-Extroversion was used. Majority of the students have non-superstition score in superstition scale. Extrovert students & students from rural area show high level of superstition rather than Introvert students & students from urban area. Female students show high level superstition than male students.