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Specificity of Realization of Fundamental Existential Motivations Among Orthodox Christians

Student: Slutskaya Darya

Supervisor: Vladimir Shumskiy

Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Counselling Psychology. Personality Studies (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2020

Annotation The basis of the final qualification work is the research question: “Is there a significant relationship between the level of existential fulfillment and religiosity among Orthodox Christians?”. The author of the work attempted to answer this question by using several theoretical and empirical research tools. Using the etymological and historical analysis of various information sources - vocabulary articles, philosophical works, samples of folk art - the specificity of religiosity was revealed as a phenomenon that affects all spheres of life of a believer. It was found that many aspects of the theory of existential analysis and the worldview of Orthodox Christianity are similar in a person's experience of certain phenomena. Significant features of the implementation of motivation among Orthodox Christians were also identified in relation to their worldview. According to the results, it was found that objective religiosity among respondents is at a fairly high level and makes a significant contribution to existential fulfillment. It was found that Orthodox Christianity on the territory of the Russian Federation is a socio-cultural construct due to the country's historical development and it was concluded that there is a lack of empirically sound information in the research discourse about the effect of faith on a person’s perception of the world and yourself exclusively on a spiritual level. In a sample of 623 respondents, a study was conducted on the relationship of human religion to the quality of his life in the modern world. All methods used in the study showed a high coefficient of internal consistency, which confirmed the hypothesis put forward: a person’s commitment to the Orthodox faith is a significant predictor of the existential fulfillment of a person.

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