Introduction
Values
Religious Experience
Problem and Objective Research
Methods
Participants and Procedure
Measures
The Scale of Religious Experience (SRE) by Głaz
Rokeach Value Survey (RVS)
Statistical Analysis
Results
The Level of Religious Experience of God’s Presence and God’s Absence in the Lives of Seminary Students of Philosophy and Students of Physics (Table 1)
Variables | Seminary students of philosophy | Students of physics |
F
|
df
|
p
| ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
M
|
SD
|
M
|
SD
| ||||
OB | 5.12 | 0.93 | 3.61 | 1.02 | 21.01 | 1 | <0.001 |
NB | 4.67 | 0.89 | 3.32 | 0.93 | 5.11 | 1 | <0.01 |
Ranking Distribution of Terminal Values of Personal and Social Character for the Groups of Seminary Students of Philosophy and Students of Physics (Table 2)
Groups of students | Most preferred terminal values | Ranks |
---|---|---|
Seminary students of philosophy | Inner harmony (p) | 4 |
Wisdom (p) | 5 | |
Salvation (p) | 5 | |
Freedom (p) | 6 | |
Students of physics | A world at peace (s) | 5 |
Pleasure (p) | 6 | |
Wisdom (p) | 7 | |
Family security (s) | 7 |
Relation Terminal Values with Experience of God’s Presence in the Groups of Seminary Students of Philosophy and Students of Physics (Table 3)
Groups of students | Values explaining the variance of God’s presence (OB) |
B
|
R
| Percentage of explained variance (R
2 × 100 %) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Seminary students of philosophy | True friendship (s) | 0.12 | 0.33 | 11 |
Salvation (p)a
| 0.17 | 0.41 | 17 | |
Wisdom (p)a
| 0.22 | 0.55 | 30 | |
Students of physics | Social recognition (p) | 0.31 | 0.61 | 38 |
Equality (s) | 0.13 | 0.34 | 12 |
Relation Terminal Values with Experience of God’s Absence in the Groups of Seminary Students of Philosophy and Students of Physics (Table 4)
Groups of students | Values explaining the variance of God’s absence (NB) |
B
|
R
| Percentage of explained variance (R
2 × 100 %) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Seminary students of philosophy | Mature love (s) | 0.21 | 0.32 | 10 |
Salvation (p)a
| 0.07 | 0.45 | 20 | |
Freedom (p)a
| 0.18 | 0.62 | 39 | |
Students of physics | An exciting life (p) | 0.12 | 0.45 | 20 |
Wisdom (p)a
| 0.13 | 0.47 | 22 |