Studentų vertybiniai išgyvenimai kaip dvasingumo dimensija
Students' Emotional Experiences as a Dimension of Spirituality

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the scientific research results on the emotional dimension of spirituality of those studying religion. According to the theoretical and empirical research there are few indicators of emotional dimension of spirituality such as: contemporary image of man and the image of God as the courses of emotional experience and students' emotional experience in relation with people and God. The students valuate the dimensions of a contemporary man as follows: professionality (74%), growth in spirituality (63,8%), vulnerability (44%) and pragmatics (57,6%). Majority of the students have positive images of God (freeing - 88,5% and taking care - 86,4%). A negative image of God (judge - 24,3%) is much less important, except for a negative image (cosmos — 75,2%) as much more important for the students. The data reveals, that those studying religion have a positive and negative emotional experience. In their emotional experience with people the students experience more positive emotions rather than negative ones. The students studying religion with people experience more joy, trust, compation, gentleness, longing rather than guilty, anxiety, shame, anger and fear. In their emotional experience with God they have more positive emotions rather with humans. There is a relation between the students' emotions and their images of God. Positive emotions relate to positive images of God and negative emotions relate to negative images of God. The more the students experience positive emotions the more they are oriented to positive images of God; and the more the students experience negative emotions the more they are oriented to negative images of God. The emotions experienced with people and with God correlate in this way: positive emotions with God correlate with positive emotions with people and the same is with negative emotions.

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