methodology section

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The questionnaire used to collect data was constructed using the Big Five Trait Taxonomy (John & Srivastava, 1999) and the Revised Paranormal Belief Scale (Tobacyk, 2004). A correlational design was used to gain insight into relationships between the personality traits assessed via the Big Five measure and the paranormal beliefs considered on the Paranormal Belief Scale.

Participants were invited to take part by first-year University of Brighton undergraduate students. They completed the questionnaire online via Qualtrics, where they were reminded at all stages of their right to withdraw their data and their right to data confidentiality. The data were then processed by the head of the course and passed to the students for closer analysis in accordance with individual hypotheses. Data were analysed using Jamovi (The Jamovi Project, 2024) and presented in a report.