한국인의 종교성이 행복, 봉사활동 그리고 삶의 의미에 미치는 영향

Abstract

The purpose of this study is for influencing religiosity on happiness, volunteering, and meaning of life in Korea. To achieve this goals, 2 types of researches were performed in this study. The research 1 and 2 were performed with total 1,431 people who are Buddhist(n = 242), Protestant(n = 469), Rome Catholic(n = 325), and non religious people(n = 395). In the research 1, examined differences of religiosity, meaning of life, happiness, and volunteering between believers and non-believers. The results show all variables have differences between believers and non-believers. Believers have higher awareness for religiosity, meaning of life, happiness and volunteering than non-believers. In the research 2, as the results of correlation analysis among religiosity, meaning of life, happiness and volunteering, all variables related with religiosity were in positive correlation. Also the results of structural equation modeling show significant paths of religiosity to happiness, religiosity to volunteering, happiness to meaning of life, and religiosity to meaning of life. Overall, these results show religiosity are not only for religious, but also psychological, social, cultural variables in life. Also this study implies religiosity has positive correlation to pursuit higher standard for meaning of life.