TY - JOUR
T1 - Belief in luck and luckiness
T2 - conceptual clarification and new measure validation
AU - Thompson, Edmund R.
AU - Prendergast, Gerard P.
PY - 2013/3
Y1 - 2013/3
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84871694445&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.10.027
U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2012.10.027
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2012.10.027
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84871694445
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 54
SP - 501
EP - 506
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
IS - 4
ER -