The Importance of Terminal Values and Religious Experience of Gods Presence and Gods Absence in the Lives of University Students with Various Levels of Empathy
The aims of the research I embarked on were: (a) to show the preference of terminal values in personal and in social character, as well to determine the level of religious experienceGods presence and Gods absence, in groups of young people characterized by a high and low level of empathy and (b)...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2015]
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Journal of religion and health
Year: 2015, Volume: 54, Issue: 3, Pages: 1052-1067 |
| Further subjects: | B
Religious Experience
B Students B Gods presence B Terminal values B Empathy B Young People B Gods absence |
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| Summary: | The aims of the research I embarked on were: (a) to show the preference of terminal values in personal and in social character, as well to determine the level of religious experienceGods presence and Gods absence, in groups of young people characterized by a high and low level of empathy and (b) to show the relation between terminal values in personal and in social character and religious experience: Gods presence and Gods absence, in groups of young people with a high and low level of empathy. In the research, the following methods were applied: The Scale of Religious Experience by Glazin order to define the level of religious experience: Gods presence and Gods absence, and Mehrabian and Epsteins Questionnaire Measure of Emotional Empathyin order to define the level of empathy. In order to show the terminal values preference amongst young people, the Rokeach Value Survey was applied. The research was carried out in Kraków amongst 200 university students. The research has shown that students with a high level of empathy reveal a higher level of experience of Gods presence than the people with a low level of it. University students with a high level of empathy amongst terminal values prefer most two values in personal character, that is wisdom and pleasure, and one in social characterfamily security. Similarly, students with a low level of empathy prefer most also two values in personal character, that is pleasure and freedom, and one in social characterfamily security. In the group of people with a high level of empathy, it is value in personal charactera sense of accomplishmentthat contribute more to explaining the variance of religious experience of Gods presence, and in group of people with a low level of empathy, it is social valuesocial recognition. Whereas in the group of people with a high level of empathy it is value in social characterequalitythat contribute more to explaining the variance of religious experience of Gods absence, and in group of people with a low level of empathy, it is personal valuesalvation. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6571 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10943-014-9884-5 |