Intensywność postawy religijnej małżonków a ich ustosunkowanie się do metod planowania rodziny

Abstract

The main aim of the article was to show the interrelation between intensity of the spouses’ religious attitude and their attitude towards family planning methods. The article consists of two parts. In the first one the issues are contained that are related to the religious attitude as a factor that modifies one’s attitude towards family planning methods. Particular family planning methods are characterized in very general terms and their influence is presented on the spouses’ mental life; also the Church’s attitude towards the issue of family planning methods is shown. The second part - an empirical one - is an analysis of the results of studies of 120 spouses that were carried out. The studies clearly confirmed the assumption that the stronger is the spouses’ religious attitude the more positive is their attitude to the natural family planning methods. On the basis of the empirical data it was found that people with a high intensity of the religious attitude use the natural methods more often than people with a low degree of religiousness. The results of the conducted studies also showed that there is a significant difference between various groups of subjects as to the information they have about family planning methods. The results are in favour of the group of people with high intensity of the religious attitude.