Guilt, Psychological Well-Being and Religiosity in Contemporary Cinema

Religions

Icíar Fernández-Villanueva¹  Elena Ayllón Alonso²  José Ángel Medina Marina²  Florentino Moreno Martín² 

[1] Department of Basic Psychological Processes and Their Development University of the Basque Country, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain;Department of Social, Work and Differential Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain;

关键词: spirituality;    religiosity;    psychological well-being;    guilt;   

DOI  :  10.3390/rel13040277

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This study explains the change in meaning that psychology has given to the relationship between religiosity and psychological well-being since the beginning of the 20th century, dating it back to the deep change introduced by post-modernity. Guilt is interpreted as a paradigm of this change in meaning, and the reflection that the different ways of understanding guilt have had on the screen is analyzed. The Content Analysis of a sample of 94 films showed 5 modes of expression of guilt that can be placed on a continuum from the traditional Judeo-Christian model that serves as a benchmark—harm-repentance-penitence-forgiveness—to the removal of guilt as a requirement for self-realization. The other three models emerge between these two poles: the absence of guilt as a psychiatric pathology; the resignification of the guilty act for the reduction in dissonance; and idealized regret at no cost. Studying guilt-coping models of the films allows us to infer the hypothesis that a large part of the current positive view of religiosity in psychological well-being is related to a culture that does not demand psychological suffering as a requirement for a full experience of spirituality.

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