MALADAPTIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS, RELIGIOSITY AND SPIRITUALITY AS PREDICTORS OF EPISTEMICALLY UNFOUNDED BELIEFS

• Authors: Teličák Peter , Halama Peter
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The present research focuses on the question whether spirituality, religiosity and maladaptive personality traits, as measured by the PID-5 (antagonism, psychoticism, disinhibition, negative affectivity, detachment), predict epistemologically unfounded beliefs (conspiracies, pseudo-science and paranormal beliefs). The sample included 829 participants recruited through social networks (58% women, mean age 29.98 years). The results showed that especially psychoticism is a positive predictor of all types of epistemologically unfounded beliefs (EUB). Spirituality and religiosity predicted only paranormal beliefs with very small effect size. No interaction between psychoticism and spirituality/religiosity in prediction of EUB was found. Results confirmed that some maladaptive personality traits (especially psychoticism) can play a significant role in EUB and should be taken into account when considering sources of EUB at the individual level.

Keywords

EN

MALADAPTIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS; PID-5; EPISTEMICALLY UNFOUNDED BELIEFS; RELIGIOSITY; SPIRITUALITY

• Publisher: Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Psychologica
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 63
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 175 – 189

Contributors

author

Teličák Peter

• Institute of Experimental Psychology, Centre for Social and Psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 04 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

author

Halama Peter

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/sp.2021.02.820