Distinction of Spirituality and Religiosity at the Level of Sacral Practices
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For more than 100 years, psychologists have differentiated religiosity and spirituality at a
conceptual level. Religiousness is acceptance of traditional communal religious beliefs and
practices, while spiritualism is a quest for meaning and truth, a sense of connectedness with
the social and natural world, and contemplations of oneself. Recent psychometric empirical
evidence confirmed they are independent psychological dispositions. In this study we build up
on the empirical evidence on religiosity and spirituality as different constructs by
operationalizing them not just as beliefs but also as practices. We hypothesis religious beliefs
should predict only religious practices, and spiritual beliefs spiritual practices. To measure
beliefs, we have used 16-item subscales of questionnaire Lexical social attitudes - Serbia.
Summary scores for both subscales are highly reliable (αREL = .93, αSPIR = .88). To measure
practices we constructed a questionnaire for this study.... On a binary scale (yes or no),
participants assessed if they had done at least once in the previous year each of the ten
traditional religious practices (e.g., prayed, confessed, read a holy book) and ten spiritual
practices (e.g., spent time in nature, made art, wrote a diary). Reliability of summary scores is
not satisfactory neither for the scale of religious practices (α = .63) nor spiritual (α = .58), so
one should take caution with interpreting the results. In an online survey, 197 participants
(70.0% women, Mage = 19.47, SDage = 5.43), filled questionnaires. Orthodox Christians
comprised 70.1%, followed by atheists 14.2%, and 11.2% agnostics. To test the hypothesis, we
derived a canonical correlation between beliefs on one side and practices on the other. The first
canonical correlation (R = .66, F(4,386) = 43.00, p < .001) describes religious people (b = .98)
who follow religious practices (r = .92) but decline spiritual (r = -.41). The second one (R =
.38, F(1,194) = 33.95, p < .001) describes spiritual people (r = .98) who in order to find meaning
and truth engage in spiritual practices (r = .91) and religious too some extent (r = .39). Results
are in line with conceptualizing religiosity and spirituality as different constructs, but results
eject orthogonality. Spiritualism manifests through spiritual beliefs and diverse practices that
provide sense of connectedness with the social and natural world and contemplations of
oneself, unlike rigid religiosity.
Кључне речи:
traditionalism / religiousness / spiritualism / transcendentalism / individual differencesИзвор:
Proceedings of The XXIX Scientific Conference Empirical Studies in Psychology (29; 2023., Beograd), 2023, 1, 66-66Издавач:
- Beograd : Institut za psihologiju i Laboratorija za eksperimentalnu psihologiju, Filozofski fakultet
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- Министарство науке, технолошког развоја и иновација Републике Србије, институционално финансирање - 200025 (Универзитет у Београду, Институт за филозофију и друштвену теорију) (RS-MESTD-inst-2020-200025)
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IFDTTY - CONF AU - Mijatović, Nevena PY - 2023 UR - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/2937 AB - For more than 100 years, psychologists have differentiated religiosity and spirituality at a conceptual level. Religiousness is acceptance of traditional communal religious beliefs and practices, while spiritualism is a quest for meaning and truth, a sense of connectedness with the social and natural world, and contemplations of oneself. Recent psychometric empirical evidence confirmed they are independent psychological dispositions. In this study we build up on the empirical evidence on religiosity and spirituality as different constructs by operationalizing them not just as beliefs but also as practices. We hypothesis religious beliefs should predict only religious practices, and spiritual beliefs spiritual practices. To measure beliefs, we have used 16-item subscales of questionnaire Lexical social attitudes - Serbia. Summary scores for both subscales are highly reliable (αREL = .93, αSPIR = .88). To measure practices we constructed a questionnaire for this study. On a binary scale (yes or no), participants assessed if they had done at least once in the previous year each of the ten traditional religious practices (e.g., prayed, confessed, read a holy book) and ten spiritual practices (e.g., spent time in nature, made art, wrote a diary). Reliability of summary scores is not satisfactory neither for the scale of religious practices (α = .63) nor spiritual (α = .58), so one should take caution with interpreting the results. In an online survey, 197 participants (70.0% women, Mage = 19.47, SDage = 5.43), filled questionnaires. Orthodox Christians comprised 70.1%, followed by atheists 14.2%, and 11.2% agnostics. To test the hypothesis, we derived a canonical correlation between beliefs on one side and practices on the other. The first canonical correlation (R = .66, F(4,386) = 43.00, p < .001) describes religious people (b = .98) who follow religious practices (r = .92) but decline spiritual (r = -.41). The second one (R = .38, F(1,194) = 33.95, p < .001) describes spiritual people (r = .98) who in order to find meaning and truth engage in spiritual practices (r = .91) and religious too some extent (r = .39). Results are in line with conceptualizing religiosity and spirituality as different constructs, but results eject orthogonality. Spiritualism manifests through spiritual beliefs and diverse practices that provide sense of connectedness with the social and natural world and contemplations of oneself, unlike rigid religiosity. PB - Beograd : Institut za psihologiju i Laboratorija za eksperimentalnu psihologiju, Filozofski fakultet C3 - Proceedings of The XXIX Scientific Conference Empirical Studies in Psychology (29; 2023., Beograd) T1 - Distinction of Spirituality and Religiosity at the Level of Sacral Practices IS - 1 SP - 66 EP - 66 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2937 ER -
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Mijatović, N.. (2023). Distinction of Spirituality and Religiosity at the Level of Sacral Practices. in Proceedings of The XXIX Scientific Conference Empirical Studies in Psychology (29; 2023., Beograd) Beograd : Institut za psihologiju i Laboratorija za eksperimentalnu psihologiju, Filozofski fakultet.(1), 66-66. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2937
Mijatović N. Distinction of Spirituality and Religiosity at the Level of Sacral Practices. in Proceedings of The XXIX Scientific Conference Empirical Studies in Psychology (29; 2023., Beograd). 2023;(1):66-66. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2937 .
Mijatović, Nevena, "Distinction of Spirituality and Religiosity at the Level of Sacral Practices" in Proceedings of The XXIX Scientific Conference Empirical Studies in Psychology (29; 2023., Beograd), no. 1 (2023):66-66, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2937 .