COGNITIVE FACTORS IN THE FORMATION OF A PERSON'S RELIGIOUS WORLDVIEW

Abstract

Relevance of the study is determined by the insufficient level of study of the problem of religious worldview.

Methods and sample. The sample of the study subjects consisted of 366 people aged 15 to 65 years, including 184 men and 182 women. The subjects were offered a questionnaire to study the type of religious worldview. In addition, the basic beliefs diagnostic method of R. Janoff-Bulman (Chaika, 2024), the implicit personality theory diagnostic method of K. Dweck (Fomenko, 2015), the self-efficacy diagnostic method of R. Schwarzep and M. Jerusalem (Kokun et al., 2011) and the irrational attitudes diagnostic method of A. Ellis (Diagnosis of Irrational Attitudes).

Conclusions. As a result of the theoretical analysis of the problem of worldview, it is appropriate to define it as 1) a system of religious and spiritual values ​​and ideals, 2) a system of religious worldview orientations, a focus on a theistic way of knowing the world, 3) a religious picture of the world as a holistic system of ideas about the world and general principles of the universe, which originate from a theistic interpretation of reality, 4) a system of idealistic views and beliefs of the individual, denial of a materialistic worldview and explanation of the world, a tendency to mystical beliefs.

Five types of religious worldview have been empirically identified: 1) “Mystical type of religious worldview”; 2) “Agnostic type of religious worldview”; 3) “Religious type of worldview”; 4) “Atheistic type of religious worldview”; 5) “Atheistic-agnostic type of religious worldview”.

A comparative analysis of the subjects with different types of religious worldviews showed the superiority of basic beliefs about the attachment, controllability and justice of the world, as well as in one's own self-worth and success of the "Agnostic religious worldview". It was determined that the profitable implicit theory of personality is least characteristic of individuals with the "Mystical" and "Atheistic" types of worldviews. In addition, the subjects with the "Mystical worldview" type are characterized by the lowest self-efficacy indicators. Irrational attitudes and destructive basic beliefs are characteristic of the "Agnostic" and "Agnostic-atheistic" types of religious worldviews.