3,553 responses from 209 respondents to 17 items.
One of 3 tables from the same source; this one measures Superstitious beliefs. The others are listed under Related tables.
| Description | Superstitious beliefs questionnaire, 17 statements (sb_1-sb_17), 1-5; N = 209 Indian young adults; cov_age, cov_gender, cov_location, cov_ses. |
|---|---|
| Reference | Rajeev, P., & Sujatha (2025). Superstitious Beliefs and Their Psychological Correlates: The Role of Affective States and Personality Traits in Young Adults. Harvard Dataverse, V1. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/33B2DP |
| Licence | CC0 1.0 |
| Source data | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/33B2DP |
| Responses | 3,553 |
|---|---|
| Respondents | 209 |
| Items | 17 |
| Response categories | 5 |
| Responses per respondent | 17 |
| Responses per item | 209 |
| Density | 1 |
| Longitudinal | FALSE |
| age range | Adult (18+) |
|---|---|
| sample | General/non-specific |
| measurement tool | Survey/questionnaire |
| item format | Likert Scale/selected response |
| primary language(s) | eng |
| construct name | Superstitious beliefs |
This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.
| Instrument | Superstitious beliefs questionnaire (17 statements, study-specific) |
|---|---|
| Mean words per item | 12.412 |
| Mean characters per item | 66.706 |
| Mean characters per response | 2 |
| Flesch-Kincaid grade level | 6.411 |
This codebook is reconstructed by the IRW from the IRW data standard and the script that built it, rajeev_2025_superstition_affect_personality.py. It is our best reading, not the source’s own codebook, and it may contain mistakes. Where the two disagree, the source data are the authority. If you find an error, please tell us.
| Column | What it is | Source column |
|---|---|---|
| IRW standard columns | ||
id | IRW standard Identifier for the focal unit being measured — typically a person, but sometimes another entity (e.g., a word in a lexical task). | made in the build script |
item | IRW standard Item identifier. | made in the build script |
resp | IRW standard Response value. | made in the build script |
| Respondent covariates | ||
cov_age | Covariate | Age |
cov_gender | Covariate | Gender |
cov_location | Covariate | Geographical Location |
cov_ses | Covariate | Socioeconomic Status (SES) |
What item codes and covariate values stand for is in the codebook released with the source data.
Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):
# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("rajeev_2025_superstition")
# Python
pip install irw
import irw
df = irw.fetch("rajeev_2025_superstition")
@misc{https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/33b2dp,
doi = {10.7910/DVN/33B2DP},
url = {https://dataverse.harvard.edu/citation?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/33B2DP},
author = {Rajeev, Preeti and {Dr. Sujatha}},
keywords = {Other, Superstitious beliefs, affect, personality traits, gender differences},
title = {Superstitious Beliefs and Their Psychological Correlates: The Role of Affective States and Personality Traits in Young Adults},
publisher = {Harvard Dataverse},
year = {2025}
}
| IRW version | v607 |
|---|---|
| Redivis dataset | item_response_warehouse_5 v10.0 |
| Redivis dataset DOI | 10.57761/45xf-md22 |
| Manifest pin for this IRW version | v9.0 |
| Metadata source | irw_meta v47.0 |