Correlation Between Belief In Good Luck And Anxiety

Critique: Belief in good luck and psychological well-being: The mediating role of optimism and irrational beliefs.
This article discusses the relationship between belief in good luck and depression as well as anxiety. Belief in good luck has been traditionally regarded as an irrational belief and the authors in the article attempt to overturn this idea. They utilize the five theories of depression and anxiety to explain this relationship that embraces optimism, neuroticism, attribution style, self-esteem and irrational belief. They point out that there are no better theories at present that could aid the explanation. In order to investigate precisely, 144 undergraduate students that aged between 18 and 51 at Sheffield Hallam University have
Based on the result of the paper, it can be seen that belief in good luck is closely related to one 's psychological being. Actually, research concerning about their relationship in the past are not uncommon. Therefore, this paper further consolidates the point of view that belief in good luck shared a positive relationship with optimism and a negative relationship with depression, anxiety and irrational beliefs. That is, belief in good luck produces a positive illusion that leads to feelings of confidence, control and optimism. It can be proved by the result of the survey conducted. Thus, the findings are consistent with previous research and the paper plays as a supportive role to them. Regarding the methods in this research paper, it is in the form of questionnaire solely. It is undeniable that questionnaires can be a good and efficient way to collect data, but the data perhaps can be collected in a broader way. In this way, the correlation of belief in good luck and the psychological beings can be presented more persuasively. Although this is an interesting paper, the author could have provides more means to make their argument strong and clear at the same
We may say this theory could only be theoretical use. Focusing on the background of this study, the only information we know is the number of respondents and its sex distribution, as we mentioned before, this could not form a strong argument or idea. If we say this theory can apply into Hong Kong’s situation, it may only consider as take a part for the whole, so the local relevance of the study is relatively low in this case as there are many unexplained variables. Since this may not a well-researched study, further research is needed just like Day and Maltby mention in the discussion part. Future researchers might need to choose the respondents carefully, for example, a balance between males and females, growing up in England, etc. It is because there are many variables, which could influence the result, like sex, culture, education, etc. Also, they could enlarge the targeted group, as concentrating merely on undergraduate full-time students cannot explain the entire relationship between belief in good luck and psychological well-being. Thus, collecting more information from various age groups or occupations could increase the reliability of the study. By then, it is a more appropriate time to discuss whether the theory can be applied to Hong