Guilt, Psychological Well-Being and Religiosity in Contemporary Cinema
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 meani...
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| author | Florentino Moreno Martín Icíar Fernández-Villanueva Elena Ayllón Alonso José Ángel Medina Marina |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-ac85f15856b14c40b390463f579ec2002023-12-03T13:54:22ZengMDPI AGReligions2077-14442022-03-0113427710.3390/rel13040277Guilt, Psychological Well-Being and Religiosity in Contemporary CinemaFlorentino Moreno Martín0Icíar Fernández-Villanueva1Elena Ayllón Alonso2José Ángel Medina Marina3Department of Social, Work and Differential Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, SpainDepartment of Basic Psychological Processes and Their Development University of the Basque Country, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, SpainDepartment of Social, Work and Differential Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, SpainDepartment of Social, Work and Differential Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, SpainThis 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.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/4/277spiritualityreligiositypsychological well-beingguilt |
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| title | Guilt, Psychological Well-Being and Religiosity in Contemporary Cinema |
| title_full | Guilt, Psychological Well-Being and Religiosity in Contemporary Cinema |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Guilt, Psychological Well-Being and Religiosity in Contemporary Cinema |
| title_short | Guilt, Psychological Well-Being and Religiosity in Contemporary Cinema |
| title_sort | guilt psychological well being and religiosity in contemporary cinema |
| topic | spirituality religiosity psychological well-being guilt |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/4/277 |
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