Religijność ambiwalentna a potrzeby i wartości

Abstract

The problem of the ambivalent religiosity and its relevance to the structure of needs and a preference of values was described in this article. First it was discussed the conception of ambivalention in psychology and in religiosity, then its occurrence and kinds. The occurrence of conflicts in a cognition sphere, co-existence of opposed emotions, volitional dilemmas and incoherent behaviour in relation to the religious object is characteristic for ambivalent religiosity. The group of the ambivalent religiosity persons: „doubting, but interested in questions of religion” (N = 30) was compared to a control group: „emphatic faithful” (N = 112) by means of Activities Index – G. G. Stern and Survey Values – M. Rokeach. It appears that the ambivalent persons in the comparison to the emphatic faithful ones have greater intensity of the following needs: Aggression and Autonomy, and they have slighter intensity of such values like : Humanism, Nurturance, Succordance, Ego Achievement. In the sphere of terminal values, the ambivalent individuals prefer: A comfortable life, An exciting life, Social recognition, Sense accomplishment and Salvation is the last one. The values of Independence and Capability occupy the leading places from among the instrumental values, while the following: Forgiveness, Honesty, Helpfulness are on the final positions. The acquired findings confirm (significant level) the hypothesis that the ambivalent religiosity is connected with mentioned elements of the personality structure.