Open AccessStudy of Stress Level Contributing To the Superstitious Behavior
Author(s) -
Manasvi Shrivastav
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of indian psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2349-3429
pISSN - 2348-5396
DOI - 10.25215/0403.107
Subject(s) - stress (linguistics) , psychology , scale (ratio) , geography , philosophy , cartography , linguistics
In this research, researcher studied the relation between stress and superstitious behavior. This study carried out in UP. To assess the level of stress, stress scale of M.Singh (2002) has been used and to assess superstitious behaviour self-constructed scale has been used. Chi square technique has been used for data analysis. The relation between stress level and superstitious behaviour is significant at 0.01 level of confidence. Hence, it has been concluded that high stress lead to high superstitious behaviour.