A Study for the Dimensions and Organization of Superstition Belief Scale in Middle School Students

Objective: To make a superstition belief scale for middle school students and to explore its dimensions.Methods: There were 3064 subjects participated in this investigation for seven times in Chongqing city and Sichuan province.Base on open-ended questionnaire and the popular test and three times of the exploratory factor analysis(EFA),the formal scale with 24 items is made.Succeeding,the researchers investigated 743 students for confirmatory factor analysis(CFA),67 students for the four weeks' test-retest reliability test and 236 students for the test of discriminant validity.Results: The Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the Superstition Belief Scale(SBS) and each sub-scales were from 0.66 to 0.92;and the test-retest reliability of the SBS and each sub-scales were from 0.80 to 0.90.The CFA showed that the structure of the SBS was rational: χ2/df=2.711,GFI=0.928,CFI=0.917,NNFI=0.907,RMSEA=0.048.The correlation between the SBS and the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory's positive past subscale was from 0.09 to 0.26.Conclusion: The SBS can be used as a reliable and effective tool to assess middle school students' superstitious beliefs.