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In the article, I present a proposal for a new approach to spirituality in the field of psychology – the spiritual sensitivity (a disposition to experience spirituality, manifested in the embracement of the nature of things in the transcendent and final perspective, in moral sensitivity, and the ability to find meaning in paradoxical and limiting situations), which consists of individual, interconnected competences (Holism and Harmony Wisdom, Awareness, Meaning; Religiosity and Faith; Ethics and Moral Sensitivity/Conscience; Openness to Other People; Spiritual Commitment; Aesthetic Sensitivity). The proposed theoretical framework relates spirituality – abstract, ideational realm – to the specific, individualized, everyday life of a person, i.e. to the selection of objectives and measures for their implementation, as well as it allows to operationalization the spirituality in easier way in research studies. In the article, I briefly present the method for measuring spiritual sensitivity – Spiritual Sensitivity Inventory (SSI) (Straś-Romanowska, Kowal, Kapała) – and indicate some regularities detected in a series of studies on the nature of the phenomenon and its role in human life, e.g. its importance for the sense of subjectivity and subjective quality of life of people.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/j.2017.30.1.7
Date of publication: 2017-07-11 21:56:13
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