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Beliefs happen to be the most significant indicators of a person’s overall personality and provide us a window on his mental constructs. The study of the paranormal activities and phenomena has been riddled with controversy since its conception and previous researches revealed mixed and contradictory findings. The present study focuses to study correlation between Religious beliefs, paranormal beliefs and the personality factors across different religious groups, among individuals of different age groups and socio-economic status. Significant positive correlation was found between religiosity and paranormal beliefs as well as between religiosity and the traditional religious beliefs, psi and witchcraft subscales of the paranormal beliefs scale. Results also report a negative correlation between religious beliefs and the spiritualism, extraordinary-life-forms and precognition subscales of the paranormal beliefs scale. Neuroticism was found to be the only personality factor significantly predicting paranormal beliefs. Muslims scored higher on the traditional religious beliefs subscale in comparison with the Hindus. On the other hand, among the Hindus a higher degree of endorsement of witch-craft was observed. However, so far as the Christians are concerned no significant differences were observed either on global paranormal beliefs or any of the subscales of the paranormal beliefs. Socially marginal groups were found to be more susceptible to paranormal beliefs. They scored higher on psi, witchcraft, superstition, spiritualism, precognition as well as the total- paranormal beliefs scale.

Mental health has been defined variously by scholars from different cultures. Concepts of mental health, among others, include subjective well-being, perceived self efficacy, autonomy, competence, intergenerational dependence and self actualization of one‟s intellectual and emotional potential. From a cross-cultural perspective it is nearly impossible to define mental health comprehensively. It is, however, generally agreed that mental health is a broader term than lack of mental disorders. The present study aims to find the difference, if any, between the mental health and the level of stress of Indian and Foreign post-graduate students. The sample of this study comprised of 60 students (30 Indians and 30 Foreigners) studying at AMU, Aligarh. The tools were individually administered to all the participants of the study and all the possible precautions were taken. t-test was used for analyzing the data. Significant differences were found between the two groups. According to the world Health Organization (WHO), there is no “official” definition of mental health. Cultural differences, subjective assessments and competing professional theories all affect how “mental health” is defined. In general most experts agree that “mental health” and “mental illness” is not the same thing. In other words, the absence of a recognized mental disorder is not necessarily an indicator of mental health.