Psychologiczne korelaty kryzysu w trakcie formacji zakonnej
Psychological correlates of crisis during the monastic formation

Summary/Abstract: The monastic formation is a process of shaping the competence of living a monastic life in which religiousness is a motivating factor. Shaping the competence accentuates the progressive aspect of the formation process – the system of changes leading to a higher quality of monastic life. However, the phases of specific lack of adaptation of the person to external formation structures, i.e. experience of crisis can also be observed in the formation dynamics. The subject of the presented research is looking for personality correlates of crisis, analysis of interrelations between crisis and the change of oneself which is experienced in the formation process and the characteristics of the ways of coping with crisis during formation. Women practicing the monastic formation in female orders (N=226), aged between 19 and 30 years (M=23,68) constitute the study group. Following methods were applied in the research: The Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) by P.T. Costa and R.R. Mc Crae, The Adjective Check List (ACL) by H.G. Gough i A.B. Heilbrun, and the Scale for Studying the Monastic Formation by B. Zarzycka. The research demonstrated the presence of crises during the monastic formation. The most common are crises of trust in people, in vocation and in values. Personality does not constitute a considerable predictor of the experience of crisis – solely the agreeableness scale differentiated the groups. Crisis is a factor which decreases significantly the intensity of the change of oneself experienced during the monastic formation.

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