Doświadczenie Boga a doświadczenie rodziców u młodzieży. Interpretacja w świetle analizy transakcyjnej

Abstract

Basing of an empirical study in which 267 young people took part the article shows the connection between the experience of God and the experience of the parents. On the basis of the theoretical assumptions of transactional analysis an inventory was compiled for studying religious experience. Apart from that inventory the study used Osgood’s Semantic Differential in order to determine the image of one’s mother, father and of God. As result of distinguishing the degree of feeling the bond with one’s parents four groups of subjects were obtained: two groups of subjects who has a strong bond, and two groups of subjects who had a weak bond with their mother and father. The results of the study have demonstrated that the stronger is the bond with the mother or with the father, the greater is its influence on the experience of God in the subjects. The study results have also shown that the mother plays a greater role in evoking the experience of God in young people than the father does. It seems that the father, even one actually present in the family, plays a lesser role in the process of religious education of the modern generation.