The current study experimentally investigated the effects of personal religiosity level on an individual’s attribution of psychedelic experience to be religious. And whether the frequency of using...Show moreThe current study experimentally investigated the effects of personal religiosity level on an individual’s attribution of psychedelic experience to be religious. And whether the frequency of using psychedelics could contribute to religious attribution of psychedelic experience under the moderation effect of an individual’s level of belief in God. The number of 516 people responded to a survey assessing their religiosity, indicated by the level of faith in God and other religion-introduced concepts such as angels and demons, their frequency of using psychedelics, and the degree to which they considered their psychedelic experience to be religious-related. SPSS (Version 26) was used to run regression analysis to measure the scores. The results indicated that people with a high religiosity level were more likely to experience psychedelics in a religious-related way. However, there was no effect found of frequency of psychedelic usage on religious-related psychedelic experience with or without belief in God as a moderator. Despite the central hypothesis being significant, there remained partly insignificant results and other limitations of this study. As a result, more research should be conducted to understand better the relationship between religiosity and psychedelics drug and their possible implication in the clinical and non-clinical psychology field.Show less
