Congruência dos valores humanos e suas repercussões para o sentido de vida em pessoas religiosas

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Serafim, Tiago Deividy Bento
• 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; Valores; Religiosidade; Congruência; Meaning of life; Values; Religiosity; Congruence; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/4227

This present study had as objective to identify the correlations between religiosity, meaning of life and values in religious people. This research also verified the congruence between personal values and perceived values of religious intituition and the influence of this congruence causes at meaning of life in religious people. To do this research, we used the Viktor Frankl s Logotherapy, the Value Funcionalist Theory and the religiosity, by Religious Atitude Scale, of Aquino. This research was divided in two studies. 196 people, both sex, partipated of first study. 54 people was male (24,6%) and 142 female (72,4%). The mean age was 32, being the youngest 18 years old and the oldest 73 years old. The research had as inclusion criteria the participants belong to any religion. Most of the respondants were of evangelic religions, corresponding to 61,7% of respondentes. We used the Religious Attitude Scale, the Basic Values Questionnaire and the Purpose in life Test as intruments for data collection of this research. four dimensions were extracted from the EAR-20: Religious Knowledge, religious corporeality, religious sentiment, and religious behavior. We identified positive correlations between religious knowledge, religious sentiment and religious behavior dimensions and meaning of life as well as positive correlations between the interacional subfunction and the religious feeling and religious corporeality dimensions. It was concluded that greater religious orientation is a way to find the meaning of life. Participated in the second study 209 people, of both sexes, being 144 (67%) female and 70 (32.6%) male. The average age of participants was 29 years, with 18 years old the youngest participant and the oldest 65 years old. The majority (n = 130) reported to belong to the Catholic religion, with 66 participants belonging to the Evangelical religion, 16 and Spiritualists 2 people reported belonging to other religions. The congruence of personal values and religion values regarding normative and suprapersonal subfunctions positively influences the feeling of accomplishment of meaning in religious people. Religious people that also to have a greater sense of accomplishment meaning to give more importance to personal values consistent with the interactional subfunction that those who perceive the same values as most important to their religion.