Correlações entre sentido de vida e espiritualidade sob a ótica do discurso do sujeito coletivo ateu

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Lorena Bandeira da
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Ciência das Religiões; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências das Religiões; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Sentido de vida.; Espiritualidade.; Ateus.; Spirituality.; Atheists.; Meaning of life.; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/8770

The objective of this research was to examine the associations between spirituality and meaning of life, from the perspective of atheists. It starts with the idea that spirituality acts as an important protective factor of the subject, directing you to a search for meaning for their lives and that is independent of religious practice. This conception is based on the theoretical framework of the psychological approach to Logotherapy and Existential Analysis. This is a methodological research quantitative and qualitative, and therefore, two studies were conducted. For the qualitative study, the sample was 18 subjects, in order to show, through the speech of the atheists, concepts of spirituality and meaning of life and their relationships. a semi-structured interview with the following question "how would you define spirituality" was held "how would you define the meaning of life?" "for you, what would be manifestations/ expressions of spirituality?" "What is the relationship that you see between spirituality and meaning of life? ", which were analyzed from the Collective Subject Discourse (CSD) for the analysis of qualitative data. The study showed that the participants perceive spirituality, mostly as a kind of belief or connection with something or someone; sense of life as being primarily an objective or personal motivation or assignment that the subject gives significantly to something and does not realize the relationship between spirituality and meaning of life. For the quantitative study, the sample was 256 subjects in order to build an atheism measure, testing its factorial validity and internal consistency. socio-demographic questionnaire were used, Attitude Scale Theist / Atheist (ASTA) Questionnaires of Basic Values (QBV) and Life Sense (QLS) for data analysis. It was evident that the Attitude Scale Theistic / Atheist (EATA) and their validity constructs showed good psychometric parameters, the analysis showed adequate internal consistency for the factors and Gnostic Atheist factor correlated negatively with the Presence of Meaning factors, with the subfunctions normative and interactive.