Evidence for construct and discriminant validities for the Malouff and Schutte Belief Scale is presented for 83 male and 42 female students who completed the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Neuroticism and the Beck Depression Inventory. rs for scores on the Belief Scale were 0.60 and 0.46, respectively, with the Eysenck and Beck scales. rs were significantly different.
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