Prevalence of superstitious beliefs and their relationship with social compliance among female students of primary education section, Al-qassim University

The current study aims to explore the prevalence of superstitious beliefs and their relationship with social compliance among a random sample of female students from the Faculty of Science and Art at Al-Qassim University. The researcher has adopted the descriptive approach in the present study which consists of(100) female students from the primary education section, level seven, scientific and humanitarian track. The researcher selected(50) female students for each track. The scale of the superstitious beliefs consists of(22) items, while the social compliance one consists of(24). Having designed the scales, they have been applied on the sample and the data have been treated statistically. The study outcomes have shown that –firstly, there is a significant difference towards superstitious beliefs among students. Secondly, there are no statistically differences in the degree of superstitious beliefs among students related to the academic scientific and humanitarian track. Thirdly, there is a significant difference towards social compliance. Finally, there are no statistically differences between the two tracks in the degree of social compliance. The statistical analysis which has been done by using Pearson correlation coefficient has shown that there is a relation between the students degrees on the superstitious beliefs scale and social compliance one, which equals(0,34). After using T-test for two correlated samples, the value of T is(8,52), which is a statistically significant at the(0.05) level. This means that the relation between the two variables is significant and positive.