Abstract
The paper examines characteristics of religiosity in employees of Fire Service of EMERCOM. The analysis of the phenomenon of religiosity of personality in psychology demonstrated the lack of its comprehensive treatment and the lack of methodological tools for its studying. The authors (a) underlined the necessity of studying spiritual and moral values of Russians in the conditions of global civilization challenges,
(b) distinguished atheistic, Christian (Orthodox) and non-Christian traditions of studying the phenomena of faith, religiosity, and spirituality of an individual, (c) revealed the psychological content of the concepts of “faith” and “religiosity”, and (d) considered the typologies of religiosity of an individual. The study involved 62 employees of the Federal Fire Service of EMERCOM of Russia in the Rostov region (men) at the age from 21 to 52 with labour experience from a year to
25 years. The methods of the study were (a) psychological testing: the questionnaire of the level of religiosity by Yu. V. Shcherbatykh, the “Inspirit” questionnaire (“Index of core spiritual experiences”) by J. Kass in D. L. Spivak’s adaptation; (b) mathematical statistics:
Spearman rank correlation analysis, non-parametric Friedman test, and Wilcoxon criterion. The results of the empirical research enabled to make a conclusion about the dominance of three components in the structure of firemen’s individual religiosity: (a) the relation to religion as a philosophical concept, which helped to understand life in all its contradictoriness and often tragic nature, (b) the tendency to consider
religion as a source of support and comfort in uncontrollable conditions, (c) desire to observe the trappings of religious life as a manifestation of internal discipline and the skill of following clear rules and regulations. The experiences which convinced firemen of the existence of God and enhanced the experience of the presence of God
inside a man dominated in their religious experience. Since religiosity is a resource of stress tolerance of representatives of extreme professions, the findings of the study are of direct practical relevance.
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Afanasenko I. V. Spetsifika individual'noi religioznosti i vyrazhennosti samoaktualizatsii u predstavitelei razlichnykh konfessii (na primere pravoslavnykh khristian i iudaistov) [The specificity of individual religiosity and the level of self-actualization in representatives of various confessions (on the example of Orthodox Christians and Judaists)]. Severo-Kavkazskii psikhologicheskii vestnik – North-Caucasian Psychological Bulletin, 2014, no. 12/1, pp. 10–13.
Afanasenko I. V., Spivak D. L. Religiozno-psikhologicheskie ustanovki molodezhi: gendernyi aspekt (na primere musul'man) [Religious-psychological attitudes of young people: gender aspect (on the example of Muslims)]. Sbornik materialov vtoroi mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii “Psikhotekhniki i izmenennye sostoyaniya soznaniya” [Proc. the Second Scientific Conference “Psycho-techniques and altered states of consciousness”]. St. Petersburg, Russian Christian Academy for Humanities Publ., 2015, pp. 244–253.
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Dvoinin A. M., Danilova G. I. Vera kak psikhologicheskaya osnova religioznosti sovremennoi pravoslavnoi molodezhi [Faith as a psychological basis of religiousness of modern Orthodox young people]. Aktual'nye problemy gumanitarnykh i estestvennykh nauk – Actual Problems of the Humanities and Natural Sciences, 2013, no. 10–2, pp. 282–288.
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Arterburn S., Felton J. Toxic faith: Experiencing healing from painful spiritual abuse. Colorado Springs, Water Book Press, 2004. 269 p.
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Emmons R. E., Cheung C. & Tehrani K. Assessing spirituality through personal goals: Implications for research on religion and subjective well-being. Social Indicators Research, 1998, no. 45, pp. 391–422.
King L. A. & Napa C. K. What makes a life good?Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1998, no. 75, pp. 156–165.
Koenig H. G., McCullough M. E. & Larson D. B. Handbook of religion and mental health. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001. 712 p.
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Wuiff D. M. Mystical experiences.Varieties of anomalous experience examining the scientific evidence. Ed. E. Cardena, S. J. Linn, S. Krippner. Washington, 2014, pp. 370–476.
Zinchenko E., Belova E. Coping behavior strategies of Russian urban students due to their social and personal frustration state.Full papers E-Book of 6th World Congress on Psychology and Behavioral Sciences (Management, Psychology, Political and Social Science) (WCPBS 2016). Barcelona, 2016, pp. 184–186.