THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS AND RIGIDITY WITH THE LEVEL OF MAGICAL THINKING IN PEOPLE BELIEVING IN ESOTERICS

The article describes a study of the relationship between personality traits and rigidity with the level of magical thinking in people who believe in esoterics. The respondents are 60 men and women aged 18 to 65 years. Standardised methods were used: determination of the level of magical thinking, shortened multifactorial questionnaire for personality research, and Tomsk rigidity questionnaire by G. V. Zalevsky. Criterial comparison of the studied groups of people according to the Student’s t-test showed the presence of statistically significant differences p < 0.05 on the scales: hypochondria, psychopathy, paranoia, schizoidness, hypomania, level of magical thinking, current and premorbid rigidity. The results of the correlation analysis showed that the higher the level of magical thinking in a person, the higher the level of manifestation of such personality traits as hypochondria, psychopathy, paranoia, psychoasthenia, schizoidness, hypomania, rigidity in a broad and narrow sense.