Belief in luck and luckiness: Conceptual clarification and new measure validation

Edmund R. Thompson; Gerard P. Prendergast

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2012.10.027

Belief in luck and luckiness: Conceptual clarification and new measure validation

Edmund R. Thompson
, Gerard P. Prendergast

University of Bath
Hong Kong Baptist University

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Abstract

Research on the dimensionality and measurement of luck beliefs has yet to produce a clear conceptual and metrical consensus. This research theorizes a bidimensional model of luck beliefs that is tested through a series of studies (total n=1205) validating the new Belief in Luck and Luckiness Scale. Unlike existing conceptualizations and measures, this new model is applicable to both believers and non-believers in luck, and reveals belief in luck and personal luckiness to be discrete, uncorrelated, and respectively unidimensional constructs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	501-506
Number of pages	6
Journal	Personality and Individual Differences
Volume	54
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.10.027
State	Published - Mar 2013
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Belief in luck
Conceptualization
Luckiness
Measurement
Personality
Scale validation

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