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Niepokój a religijność
Anxiety and religiosity

Author(s): Jacek Śliwak
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: anxiety; structure of anxiety; general anxiety; covert anxiety; overt anxiety; religiosity; live relationship to God

Summary/Abstract: This article undertakes the issue of associations between anxiety and religiosity, understood as experiencing the relationship with God. According to numerous authors, e.g. Horney (1976, p. 53), Kępiński (1987, p. 298), Argyle (1999), anxiety exerts strong influence on human behaviour. Argyle, the famous researcher of interpersonal relationships, points to such consequences of high anxiety as isolation from others, lack of friends, egocentrism, deficits of social adaptation, low assertiveness, tendency to submissiveness. R. B. Cattell holds that individuals with high characterological anxiety reveal low efficiency in adaptation processes, lack of self-confidence, distrust in oneself and others. The objective of the study presented in this article was to investigate associations between general, overt and covert anxiety (IPAT Anxiety Scale by Cattell) and features of the relationship with God (The Scale of Relationship to God by D. Hutsebaut). The results showed statistically significant associations between general, overt and covert anxiety, gender and four dimensions of religiosity: rebelliousness, guilt, identification, cohumanity. The first two scales showed positive correlations with anxiety and the latter two scales – negative correlations.

  • Issue Year: 9/2006
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 53-81
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Polish