期刊名称：Spirituality of a Personality: Methodology, Theory and Practice
印刷版ISSN：2220-6310
出版年度：2017
期号：3
页码：325-345
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出版社：Publishing House of the Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University
摘要：A number of research studies, like P. Heelas and L. Woodhead’s book The Spiritual Revolution: Why Religion Is Giving Way to Spirituality have been advocating the argument that within Australia, the UK, and the USA spirituality has been taking the place of religion, especially within the lives of young people. This claim raises a core conceptual question and two core empirical questions. The conceptual question concerns clarity regarding what is spirituality. The first empirical question concerns mapping the extent to which spirituality is indeed a recognised construct among religiously unaffiliated young people. The second empirical question concerns testing whether spirituality in fact fulfils the same function as religion in the life of young people. The present study explores these three issues, drawing on data provided by 3,860 adolescents (aged 13 to -15 years) drawn from the four nations of the UK who identified themselves as having no religious affiliation. These adolescents completed the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised (abbreviated) together with measures of spirituality and empathy. The data demonstrated a positive correlation between spirituality and empathy after controlling for personality, sex, and age. This finding suggests that in regard to enhancing empathy within the lives of young people, spirituality is fulfilling the same function as religion has traditionally, which has been established by earlier studies.
