The researcher is trying to conduct sociological analysis of the understanding and believing superstitions by kurdish sociologists teachers. Superstition used as scientific non-logical term, it presented a sacred religious story using very simple language talking about past events. carried out verbally through generations; also could be transferred between nations with exagger rations changes i...

Clean India's mission is the world’s largest toilet-building and behavioral change initiative. The Mission Media’s role to inform, educate, entertain; so mass media make nationwide campaigns open eyes of poor, backward-class people; also want enlighten open-minded ideas into rigid superstitious people. Most all third-world countries are facing a big problem access safe healthy sanitation. Media...

In this essay, I investigate the Paulician communities that lived in Ottoman Bulgaria between 17th and 18th centuries. At end of 16th century, a group Bosnian Franciscans founded Catholic mission there began to convert Paulicians. However, religious conduct remained tied ancient customs, traditions rituals perceived by missionaries as superstitions. particular, vast majority converts continued ...

The construction and properties of the Belief in Good Luck (BIGL) Scale are described. Three studies provide evidence that reliable individual differences exist with respect to beliefs about luck. Some individuals maintain an irrational view of luck as a somewhat stable force that tends to influence events in their own favor, while others seem to hold the more rational belief that luck is rando...

Background As a theoretical framework for understanding illness self-management, the commonsense model of self-regulation (CSM) has been commonly used to promote health behaviors. However, its application examining gambling disorder (GD) is still in an exploratory stage. Objectives Based on CSM, current study aimed address this knowledge gap and test whether representations (i.e., perceived con...