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Relationship between belief in good luck and general health
1Centre for Health and Social Care Research, School of Health and Community Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, England. L.Day@shu.ac.uk
Psychological Reports
|February 15, 2000
Abstract:
62 undergraduate university students were administered the 12-item Belief in Good Luck Scale of Darke and Freedman and the General Health Questionnaire of Goldberg and Williams. Scores on belief in good luck showed a significant correlation of -.29 with anxiety and -.35 with depression but correlations were not significant for somatic symptoms (.15) and social dysfunction (.15).