Beliefs around luck: Confirming the empirical conceptualization of beliefs around luck and the development of the Darke and Freedman beliefs around luck scale

Citation

Maltby J, Day L, Gill P, Colley A & Wood AM (2008) Beliefs around luck: Confirming the empirical conceptualization of beliefs around luck and the development of the Darke and Freedman beliefs around luck scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 45 (7), pp. 655-660. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.07.010

Abstract
The Current study developed a multi-dimensional measure of beliefs around luck. Two studies introduced the Darke and Freedman beliefs around luck scale where the scale showed a consistent 4 component model (beliefs in luck, rejection of luck, being lucky, and being unlucky) across two samples (n = 250; n = 145). The scales also show adequate reliability statistics and validity by ways of comparison with other measures of beliefs around luck, peer and family ratings and expected associations with measures of personality, individual difference and well-being variables.

Keywords
Luck; Good luck; Bad luck; Personality; Irrational beliefs; Attribution style; Well-being; Optimism; Hope; Chance; Fortune; Fate and fatalism.

Journal
Personality and Individual Differences: Volume 45, Issue 7