The aim of the article is to present a new measure of structure and level of religiosity. The cognitive-developmental concept of integral development of religiosity by Czesław Walesa, which distinguishes eight parameters of religiosity: religious awareness, religious feelings, religious decisions, bond with the fellowship of believers, religious practices, religious morality, religious experience and forms of profession of faith served as the theoretical bases for the test. The measure was constructed to fit the specificity of the people of the Christian profession. The preliminary reliability and validity indicators were calculated on 126 participants. Construct validity was established with Centrality of Religiosity Scale (C-15), Scale of Religious Identity, Deconversion Scale for Adolescents. The psychometric indicators were satisfactory, which shows that the test can be used to measure structure and level of style of religiosity.

Prayer is a central element of religiosity but research has focused primarily on distinguishing its types and analyzing its functional aspect. A particularly important issue is the subjective evaluation of prayer importance, which so far has not been reflected in the form of an independent psychometric tool. This is why the goal of the presented study was to develop Prayer Importance Scale (PIS) based on Tatala’s definition of the concept. Two studies were conducted to verify reliability and validity of the tool. The proposed model was found to fit the data well. Correlations of PIS with basic parameters of religiosity: religious awareness, religious feelings, religious decisions, bond with a fellowship of believers, religious practices, religious morality, religious experience and forms of profession of faith were found to be significant. PIS can be a quick method providing information on the degree of religiosity and be used in participant selection in research studies.

The aim of the presented research was to test the relationship between basic beliefs about a religious object (Transcendence, God) operationalized by Hutsebaut and various forms of civic engagement. In discovering these relationships, the mediating role of prayer importance, understood as an indicator of the strength of commitment to the relationship with God, was taken into account. In the study conducted with 535 young adults, the following tools were used: Post-Critical Belief Scale, Civic Engagement Questionnaire and Prayer Importance Scale. The results showed that social activities were more strongly associated with beliefs accepting the existence of God, while political activities were more strongly linked with attitudes rejecting the existence of God. Prayer importance was shown to mediate the relationship between beliefs accepting the existence of God and social activities and to increase the strength of service-oriented activities.

Introduction and objective: The primary focus of the study was to examine the relationship between stress and burnout among nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a special emphasis on exploring the moderating impact of age. Building upon Cohen, Camarck and Mermelstein’s notion of...

The aim of the article is to present the Confirmatory factor analysis of the Style of Religious Experience Scale (SRES). The cognitive-developmental concept of integral development of religiosity by Walesa, which distinguishes eight parameters of religiosity served as the theoretical base for the scale. The results of confirmatory factor analysis performed on a sample of 218 participants showed that the five-factor model based on 17 items of the SRES fit the data best. The five dimensions in religious experience are: (1) Importance rating; (2) Negative experiences; (3) God’s support; (4) Entrusting in God and (5) Openness to God. Validity and reliability indicators of the SRES were found to be satisfactory. The scale was constructed taking into account the specificity of the Christian religion.

W artykule przedstawiono propozycję modelu wychowawczego do modlitwy w materiałach katecheza młodzieżowa. Dokumenty! Kościoła proszę o wychowanie do modlitwy jako jedno z zadań katechezy. W pierwszej kolejności przypomina się definicję modlitwy, jej rodzaje i formy. Model wychowania do modlitwy obejmuje: wychowanie do osobistego spotkania z Bogiem, Wychowanie do modlitwy, które rozwija moralny aspekt osoby, wychowanie do modlitwy kościelny.