The examination of the relationship between social exclusion and tendency to superstition

Superstitions have been overwhelmed in communities as devil force in the hell of social exclusion and supernatural. The purpose of this study is to discover social exclusion and its relationship with tendency to superstition. The method of this research is the survey and the data was collected from 200 peasants by a questionnaire. Population of this study is residents of villages such as: gole Suleiman Abad, Backtash, Yaryjankhalse, Shinave at Miyandoab in 2014. Findings of this study indicate that, there is a positive significant relationship between social exclusion and tendency to superstition. But relationship of tendency to superstition with civil rights and life satisfaction is negative and significant (p<0/05). Also, the relationship between social isolation and alienation with tendency to superstition is not significant. Moreover, the analysis of multivariable regression showed that satisfaction and citizen right of subscale social exclusion and social distress are the strongest variables for predicting tendency to superstition.