Students Attributional Style, General Self-efficacy And Superstition Psychological Relationship

Superstition has been existed for a long time. With the development of society and progress of science, the boundaries of human knowledge are being pushed further out. However, the population of people who has been harmed by superstition is growing. Not only pupils and middle school students, but also college students have become victims and advocates of superstition. Highly attention has been paid to this phenomenon by researchers.Superstition is affected by many factors. Attributional style and general self-efficacy are two important factors.This paper investigated the relation among attributional style, general self-efficacy and superstitious belief.368 college students were conducted to complete three questionnaires. The results are as followed:(1) The level of superstition in college students is low in medium, while there are a large group of students who have serious psychological tendency to superstition, especially in traditional notion and other life forms.(2) There are statistically significant differences of college students'superstitious belief on gender, religion and grade, however, no statistically significant differences on major; student cadre, family location and only child of the family.(3) There are statistically significant differences of college students'attributional style on gender, but no statistically significant differences on major, student cadre and family location. Overall, students tend to attribute results to capacity and effort.(4) There are statistically significant differences of college students' general self-efficacy on major; student cadre and family location, but no statistically significant differences on gender. Overall, the general self-efficacy of college students is above the average level.(5) There are statistically significant correlations among college students' attributional style, general self-efficacy and superstitious belief. Students who tend to attribute results to external causes and have low general self-efficacy are more likely to harbour the paranormal phenomenon.(6) Luck can significantly positively predict superstitious belief and its three factors. Situation can significantly positively predict ghost and god belief; general self-efficacy can significantly negatively predict traditional notion.