Dominant styles of thinking about religion.

Abstract

The Post-Critical Belief Scale (PCBS) is a commonly used tool in Europe, also in Poland, for cognitive studies on religion. The theoretical basis of this scale is Wulff's (1991) model. The main aim of the research presented here was an attempt to distinguish the 4 dominant styles of thinking about religion in the students tested using the PCBS questionnaire, and then to examine the links between the individual styles and the following variables: gender, type of education, and religiosity (religious engagement and religious practices). Out of 958 participants, it was possible to distinguish 374 persons who represent the main dominant styles of religious thinking.

Three decades of the Polish psychology of religion (1989–2020)

“…As for other topics that are visibly present in the Polish psychologists of religion's current works, it can be observed, that there are three main areas that are explored: first, studies that can be labeled as "basic" in psychology of religion, like relations of religiosity with personality, styles/ modes of being religious (Szydłowski, 2018), developmental studies , links between religion and intelligence, including emotional intelligence Łowicki & Zajenkowski, 2017), values and religious experiences and numinous constructs (Głaz, 2015(Głaz, , 2016(Głaz, , 2019Piotrowski & Zemojtel-Piotrowska, 2020a), prayer and internal dialogue , or the relation with God (Zarzycka, 2016) or divine figures (Niemyjska et al, 2018). The second thread that which is present, are studies connected with the notion of well-being, its relation with religiosity and spirituality, and ways of religious coping (Krok, 2015), conducted also in clinical contexts, like in the case of cancer patients (Krok et al, 2019), alcohol addicts (Charzyńska, 2015b) or people with chronic diseases (Büssing et al, 2015;Maier & Surzykiewicz, 2020).…”

Psychology and Religion. Remarks from a Methodological Perspective

“…humanitarian support, volunteering, etc.). Since the new political transformation of the 1990s, all these elements of spirituality have been the subject of empirical research also in many Polish universities, enriching Polish and international psychology with new, important information on the functioning of the contemporary human being, approached through the personalistic psychology paradigm yet again (Szydłowski, 2018).…”