Spirituality beliefs and sense of life realization: A social cognition research
International Journal of Development Research
Spirituality beliefs and sense of life realization: A social cognition research
Received 06th April, 2021; Received in revised form 20th May, 2021; Accepted 14th June, 2021; Published online 25th July, 2021
Copyright © 2021, Cláudio Manoel Luiz de Santana et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The studies of Social Cognition are the background of the present research, particularly the concept of Beliefs. The research question is: which relationships can we establish between Beliefs in Spirituality and the realization of a Sense of Life in a sample of 1298 Brazilian college students? This research aims to correlate beliefs in spirituality with the meaning in life realization. The specific objectives are: within the scope of social cognition studies, to base the beliefs in spirituality; based on studies of Logotherapy, to understand the relationship between beliefs in spirituality and the meaning in life; and empirically, to investigate the connection of concepts in the lives of college students. It is an empirical, quantitative, descriptive, correlational research ex post facto. The results showed that most of the sample attained high realization levels of the meaning in life and beliefs in spirituality. Statistical analyzes confirmed a strong correlation between these same variables. Beliefs in spirituality are predictors for the realization of the meaning in life in this sample.
