SPIRITUALITY AND IRRATIONAL BELIEFS OF MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES IN SLOVAKS AND CZECHS

Authors

  • IVANA TOMANOVÁ ČERGEŤOVÁ College of Applied Psychology Akademická 409, 411 55, Terezín, Czech Republic & amp; MARTINO – Institute of Society and Development, Slovak Republic
  • Patrik Maturkanič College of Applied Psychology Akademická 409, 411 55, Terezín, Czech Republic
  • Ľubomír Hlad Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra Hodžova 1, 949 74 Nitra, Slovak Republic
  • YULIA NICKOLAEVNA BIRYUKOVA Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Miklukho-Maklaya street, 6 117198 Moscow, Russia
  • MARTÍN José García University of Granada, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology, Calle Rector López Argüeta s/n, 18001 Granada, Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15503/jecs2021.2.539.549

Keywords:

Key words: spirituality, irrational beliefs, movement activities.

Abstract

Aim. The present study is focused on exploring of the relationship between spirituality and irrational beliefs particularly in relation to movement activities in Slovakia and Czechia, i.e., helplessness, idealisation, perfectionism, external vulnerability, and negative expectation. 

Concept. Our research has been focused on the investigation, comparison, and correlation between the level of spirituality and irrational beliefs depending on the frequency of sport activities. 

Method. The research sample (N = 469) consisted of Slovak and Czech health population aged 18-70 (M = 41.97, SD = 13.14), of which 42.2% were men (N = 198) and 57.8% were women (N = 271). The level of spirituality was identified by means of the Expressions of Spiritual Inventory-Revised – ESI-R (MacDonald, 2000). The irrational beliefs were measured using the Scale of Irrational Beliefs (Kondáš & Kordáčová, 2000). 

Results. Research results confirmed the differences between the variables of spirituality and irrational beliefs based on the frequency of sports activities. Also, we confirmed the hypothesis of negative correlation between spirituality and irrational beliefs. 

Conclusion. In our study, we focused on the correlations between irrational beliefs and spirituality in group of Slovak and Czech population. Based on our results we can draw several conclusions. Research results confirmed the differences between the variables of spirituality and irrational beliefs based on frequency of sports activities.

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Author Biographies

IVANA TOMANOVÁ ČERGEŤOVÁ , College of Applied Psychology Akademická 409, 411 55, Terezín, Czech Republic & amp; MARTINO – Institute of Society and Development, Slovak Republic

Psychologist, mental coach and movement therapist. In the years 2003-2008 she graduated in
psychology at the Faculty of Arts of the Trnava University in Trnava. Subsequently, she continued her postgraduate studies in psychology at the University of Prešov in Prešov, where in 2010 she received her doctorate (PhDr.). In 2017, she defended her dissertation (PhD.) in the field of social psychology and work psychology. During these years, since 2007 she has worked as a lecturer, trainer, hippotherapist and at the same time a project manager in the field of education and development. Since 2010 he has been working as a consultant in the field of human resources management, project and process management, marketing and psychology. During the years 2017-2019, she worked as a academic teacher at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Trnava University in Trnava and at the detached workplace of the Hochschule Fresenius in Banská Bystrica. Since 2018, she has focused on project management and process management of EU-funded projects. She also works as a professional evaluator in several ministries and in professional agencies operating in the Slovak Republic.At the same time, she is engaged in professional psychological practice in the field of career guidance and counseling in the field of discrimination on the labor market.

Patrik Maturkanič, College of Applied Psychology Akademická 409, 411 55, Terezín, Czech Republic

University teacher, philosopher and theologist. After his graduation in philosophy and
theology in 1999, he followed up with his postgraduate study at PUaL in Roma. He studied
abroad until 2004. In 2007 he successfully finished his PhD. theology study at RKCMBF UK
in Bratislava. During the following years, he was teaching in several colleges and universities,
and he has also been continuously serving in the Church admini-stration in northern Bohemia.
Since 2015 he has been teaching at VSAPs in Terezín, he is Vice-Rector for Science and
Research. He is the author of several monographs and scientific articles. In January 2019, he
success-fully defended his habilitation thesis, and he was granted the title of Docent
(Associate Professor). He is a member of several Czech and peer-re-viewed editorial
committees in the Czech Republic and abroad.

Ľubomír Hlad, Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra Hodžova 1, 949 74 Nitra, Slovak Republic

He is an assistant professor at the Department of Religious Studies of the Konštantín Filozof
University in Nitra and in the Theological Institute of RKCMBF UK in Nitra as well as a rector of the Univesity Pastoral Centre in Nitra. He had completed his theology studies in Nitra and he has got his licentiate in dogmatic theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Roma. He successfully defended his doctoral thesis “Eschatological Dimension in the Kerygmatic Theology of Hugo Rahner“ and got his Ph.D. at the same university. At RKCMBF UK he was awarded the title of Docent and the title of his post-doctoraldissertation is “Perspectives of Mariology in Postmodernism and in the Time of New Evangelization“ (2017). Since 2006 he is a rector of UPC of Pavel Strauss in Nitra.

YULIA NICKOLAEVNA BIRYUKOVA, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Miklukho-Maklaya street, 6 117198 Moscow, Russia

Biryukova Yu.N., developed an integrative model for teaching students to read, which can be used in the professional activity of translators of professionally oriented texts. The results of this development were reflected in her Ph.D. thesis, which she defended in 2016. Subsequently, the scope of her research work was expanded. Today, Yulia Nikolaevna is actively involved in the problems of professional-communicative training of foreign medical specialists in the context of informatisation of higher education as well as the design, modeling and implementation of a linguo-methodological information environment for continuous professionally oriented teaching of the Russian language to foreign medical students. Yu.N. Biryukova is the author of a large number of articles (55 for the last 5 years), textbooks (5 for the last 5 years), monographs (4 for the last 5 years), which reflect the results of her research activities. The researcher actively participates in various international conferences in order to present the achieved results her research activities. She is the member of Association of Language testers in Europe, the member of Peter’s the Great Academy of Sciences and Arts, the member of Russian society of Russian language and literature teachers (ROPRYAL).

MARTÍN José García , University of Granada, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology, Calle Rector López Argüeta s/n, 18001 Granada, Spain

Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Granada since
October 2011, currently teaching Concepts, Theories and Methods in Sociological Research
and Introduction to Social Change. He has also organised and directed a Seminar on Søren A.
Kierkegaard since 2012, as well as various international events on this author, such as the
bicentenary of his birth (2013). He is President of the Hispanic Society of Friends of
Kierkegaard (S.H.A.K.), of which he was its promoter and co-founder (2007). He holds a PhD
in Philosophy with distinction Cum laudem (2007) and Extraordinary Doctorate Award from
the University of Malaga (2012). All his research work has been (and is) related, directly or
indirectly, to the work and thought of Søren A. Kierkegaard, of whom he wrote his thesis The
Doctrine of the Individual in the Diary of Søren A. Kierkegaard. As a result of this research
work, he studied the Danish language in order to be able to translate the original texts of the
distinguished Dane. He obtained an official certificate in Danish from the University of
Copenhagen (lower intermediate), after receiving a scholarship from the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs for a course at the University of Copenhagen (1996). Research fellow at The Hong
Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, Northfield (Minnesota, USA), in August 2009
(Summer Fellow Program). He has also been at the Department of General and Applied
Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra, Slovak
Republic (September 2010 and February 2019). At this faculty he received the
commemorative medal in recognition of his international research work at an international
congress held there in 2010. Current lines or focuses of research: Individual and society in
Kierkegaard. The socio-epistemic problem of knowledge: ideology, communication and
education. Ideology and utopia as factors of social change.

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2021-09-25

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Cergetova, I. T., Maturkanič, P., Hlad, Ľubomir, BIRYUKOVA, Y. N. ., & Martin, J. G. (2021). SPIRITUALITY AND IRRATIONAL BELIEFS OF MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES IN SLOVAKS AND CZECHS. Journal of Education Culture and Society, 12(2), 539–549. https://doi.org/10.15503/jecs2021.2.539.549

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Vol. 12 No. 2 (2021): Journal of Education Culture and Society

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