EMOTIONAL COMPONENTS OF RELIGIOUSNESS AMONG STUDENTS IN KAZAKHSTAN

The present paper measures the interconnection between religiousness and emotionality among Kazakhstan students. In fact, according to John Corrigan (2000) emotion plays a fundamental role in religion and over the past decade the academic study of emotion has developed substantially across a number of disciplines, including religious studies and psychology. This article presents the results of research of the religiousness and emotionality among students of Kazakhstan. Does religiousness as a socially-psychological virtue influence to the self-attitude and emotional mood of students in Kazakhstan is the main research question of this study. The present study is based on the idea of Glock and Stark (1965) who have been influential in defining religious orientations, origins, and dimensions. The purpose of this study is to find out whether the components of religiousness among students in Kazakhstan has a correlation with their emotionality. This research study has involved 136 students aged between 17 to 25 years attending Kazakhstan Universities. And it uses "The emotional level" questionnaire (Ilyin, 2011), also as religiousity questionnaire (Suchkova, 2009). Measuring the religiousness and emotionality showed that the religiousness level among students of Kazakhstan is quite high, even if they don't practice any religion; the level of their religiousness is 67%. However, the emotionality level seems to at an average level. The T-Test analysis revealed significant paired correlation (sig. 0.01**) between high and middle religiousness level and the same emotionality level among students of Kazakhstan. The low level of researched scales did not show any significant connections. Measuring the religiousness and emotionality showed that the religiousness level among students of Kazakhstan is quite high. (C) 2019 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK