Crenças Ocidentais e Orientais, Sentido de Vida e Visões de Morte: um estudo correlacional

• Autor(a) principal: Alves, Ana Carolina Diniz
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/4230
• topic: Crenças Religiosas; Sentido de Vida; Percepção de morte; Religious Beliefs; Sense of Life; Death Perception; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA

Death is part of life cycle of the human being, and it is interpreted through culture, values and religious beliefs. However, what is universal in human beings is the search for the meaning of death, and religiosity has a leading role in this process. In view of the above considerations, two studies were conducted in order to understand the relationship between religious beliefs, sense of life and attitudes towards death. The first study had the objective of validating an instrument of religious beliefs. To achieve that, we relied on a sample of 126 participants, respondents were 8,7% from the Christian Conscience s Meeting, 56,5% from the New Consciousness s Meeting and 34.8% were students of Science of Religions from UFPB and 51.6 % were female. To collect data we used the Scale of Religious Beliefs, proposed for this study, and a socio-demographic questionnaire. The result suggested its factorial validity distinguishing two factors called Occidental Belief and Oriental Belief. The precision of the scales was satisfactory (α> 0.70), indicating the relevance of this measure as an index to measure religious beliefs. The second study aimed to investigate the relationship between beliefs and the perception of sense in life, identify the associations between beliefs and attitudes towards death and, finally, to verify the relationship between perception of sense and attitudes towards death. The sample consisted of 121 participants, that 57% were female. Respondents were 5% from the Christian Conscience s Meeting, 61.1% from the New Consciousness s Meeting and 33.9% were students of Science of Religions from UFPB. For collecting data we used three scales: religious beliefs, Sense of Life Questionnaire and Profile of Attitudes Against Death, in addition we inserted an socio-demographic instrument. The results suggested that the sense of achievement was directly associated with the occidental belief, while the search for meaning is a correlates positively with oriental belief. The conception of finitude in occidental belief is understood by religious acceptance and escape, but in the oriental belief this result was the opposite. And the greater the sense of accomplishment the perception of death is accepted by a religious vision and less understood as fear and avoidance, and the greater the search for meaning greater the perception of death as fear. The results were discussed based on the theory of Viktor Frankl as well as from the fundamentals of the conceptions of science of religions.