Abstract

The Mental Experience Inventory (Kumar & Pekala, 1992) was revised to include additional items dealing with anomalous and paranormal experiences, beliefs and abilities; fear of having such abilities; and drug use. Using duster analysis, correlations with external criteria, and item analyses, the revised scale was segmented into five subscales: anomalous/paranormal experiences, anomalous/paranormal beliefs, anomalous/paranormal abilities, fear of the anomalous/paranormal, and drug use. These five subscales were combined into one inventory tided the Anomalous Experiences Inventory (AEI). The KR-20 reliability values for the subscales ranged between .64 and .85. Correlations of the AEI subscales with other paranormal beliefs and experiences measures and selected personality measures suggested a moderate degree of convergent validity for the experiences, abilities, beliefs, and drug use subscales.