Table 4.

Correlation distribution of PBS and SESOES

Items	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
1 Age	–	r: 0.012	r: − 0.008	r: − 0.092	r: 0.090	r: 0.190	r: − 0.085	r: − 0.092	r: − 0.080	r: 0.193	r: 0.081
		p: 0.825	p: 0.876	p: 0.089	p: 0.098	p: 0.001	p: 0.116	p: 0.089	p: 0.139	p: 0.001	p: 0.136
2 Traditional religious belief		–	r: 0.241	r: 0.502	r: 0.044	r: 0.068	r: 0.126	r: − 0.027	r: − 0.012	r: 0.193	r: 0.238
			*p: 0.001	p: 0.001	p: 0.419	p: 0.213	p: 0.020	p: 0.620	p: 0.822	p: 0.001	p: 0.001
3 Classical paranormal beliefs			–	r: 0.611	r: 0.728	r: 0.534	r: 0.631	r: 0.466	r: 0.272	r: − 0.001	r: − 0.057
				*p: 0.001	p: 0.001	p: 0.001	p: 0.001	p: 0.001	p: 0.001	p: 0.991	p: 0.294
4 Precognition				–	r: 0.228	r: 0.149	r: 0.291	r: 0.102	r: − 0.088	r: 0.113	r: 0.066
					*p: 0.001	p: 0.006	p: 0.001	p: 0.060	p: 0.107	p: 0.036	p:0 .224
5 Precognition					–	r: 0.351	r: 0.305	r: 0.202	r: 0.244	r: − 0.043	r: − 0.089
						*p: 0.001	p: 0.001	p: 0.001	p: 0.001	p: 0.433	p: 0.103
6 Psi belief						–	r: 0.277	r: 0.175	r: 0.150	r: 0.050	r: − 0.031
							*p:0.001	p:0.001	p:0.005	p:0.357	p:0.565
7 Spiritualism							–	r: 0.284	r: 0.070	r: 0.011	r: − 0.024
								*p: 0.001	p: 0.199	p: 0.842	p: 0.665
8 Extraordinary life forms								–	r: 0.083	r: 0.041	r: 0.012
									p: 0.127	p: 0.455	p: 0.824
9 Superstition									–	r: − 0.153	r: − 0.164
										*p: 0.005	p: 0.002
10 Social efficacy expectations										–	r: 0.081
											*p: 0.001
11 Social outcome expectations											–

PBS the paranormal belief scale, SESOES the social efficacy and social outcome expectations scale

*Spearman Correlation test, *p < 0.05 was taken as the level of significance, significance is shown in bold.