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Article: The factor structure of the paranormal belief scale: more evidence in support of the oblique five.
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- The Journal of Parapsychology
- Article date:
- September 1, 1997
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The question of whether paranormal belief was a simple unidimensional construct or a multidimensional construct was resolved to the satisfaction of most in the early 1980s by the development of the Paranormal Belief Scale (Tobacyk and Milford, 1983). The PBS presented seven independent factors of paranormal belief-Traditional Religious Belief, Psi Belief, Superstition, Spiritualism, Extraordinary Lifeforms, Precognition, and Witchcraft - and for over a decade was the psychometric tool of choice in the examination of paranormal belief and its correlates (Irwin, 1993). More recently, though, the PBS has been the focus of sustained conceptual and empirical criticism (Lawrence, ...