VALUE FACTORS FOR MAINTAINING PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH OF MEMBERS OF PROTESTANT COMMUNITIES: BASED ON THE RESULTS OF AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

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https://doi.org/10.32782/psych.studies/2025.1.17

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psychological health, values, value orientations, value-meaning sphere of personality

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In this article the author presents the results of a factor analysis of the value-semantic sphere of a group of respondents from Protestant churches and a group of respondents with an atheistic worldview. Both groups participated in an experimental study of the value determination of the psychological health of an individual in the conditions of war in Ukraine. The study was conducted from April 2024 to January 2025 and covered 512 people. The sample included believers from various Protestant churches of Ukraine (264 people) and respondents (248 people) who adhere to an atheistic worldview. Based on a factor analysis of the value-semantic sphere of respondents, the leading psychological mechanisms of the value determination of the psychological health of a religious individual of the Protestant faith were identified. Factor analysis provided the opportunity to specify universal psychological mechanisms for maintaining health through grouping values specific to Protestants and atheists, revealing the specifics of their impact on psychological health. The implemented experimental study allows us to state the truth of the previously expressed conceptual ideas, namely: 1) the psychological health of an individual really has a value determination; 2) Protestant communities’ members, who internalize Christian values, develop a unique lifestyle, attitude towards themselves, and worldview that determine a special configuration and degree of mental health development; 3) a conditions of war deprive a person of the usual material goods and security, but they help a religious person to actualize the values of the denomination to which he belongs, which in a difficult life situation act as a reliable support for maintaining optimal psycho-emotional state and psychological health.

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2025-03-28

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Shpak Д. О. (2025). VALUE FACTORS FOR MAINTAINING PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH OF MEMBERS OF PROTESTANT COMMUNITIES: BASED ON THE RESULTS OF AN EMPIRICAL STUDY. Psychological Studies, (1), 130–139. https://doi.org/10.32782/psych.studies/2025.1.17

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