Religious feeling and its influence on the level of moral consciousness of modern student youth

Russian State Social University, Russia

^* Corresponding author: iesokol@yandex.ru

Abstract

An important task of the society is to develop the moral consciousness of the student youth, since it is they who will further build our country, using concepts based on historical experience about good and evil, justice, honor and dignity. This task is solved using, among other things, the means of science, namely philosophy, ethics, sociology and ecology. At the same time, attempts to look at this topic from the standpoint of psychological science are still relatively rare. Studies of the influence of religiosity on the general moral state of young people are particularly sparse, which leads to the lack of any precisely formulated and justified criteria in the modern understanding of the problem. This position forms, in fact, the task for the psychologist: to identify the structure of moral consciousness typical for a representative of a modern student, to determine the necessary stages and means for the process of moral maturation of a young person receiving higher education. It is particularly important to determine the relationship between personal religious feelings and the formation of mature moral qualities in the student’s psychotype. Studying the works of psychologists who laid the foundations for understanding the processes of moral and spiritual development of the individual, we can imagine the stages of studying a particular process that interests us - from the formulation of a hypothesis to the selection of diagnostic techniques and methods of mathematical processing of results. Without any doubt, the field of view of the study included the definition of value and life-meaning orientations of students, which is ultimately and most important for everyone who takes part in the formation and education of young builders of the future life of our society.