Психологические особенности мифологических страхов в период юности у представителей ислама

Abstract

The article focuses on the relevance of religion and myth, their fundamental functions and functions in existential problems of the person. The authors describe the role and place of religion and the myth in existential problems of youth of the post-conflict region of the South of Russia. The influence of the excessive mythologization of religious contents on the sense-value sphere of young men and girls of student age is studied, since the excessive mythologization can generate existential fears and function as a destructive transformation and deformation of personality.This article also brings forward results of the empirical study of psychological features of mythological fears in the Chechen Republic among representatives of youth with various sense-value attitudes. The authors describe distinctions of character accentuations, temperament, locus of control and the level of anxiety among examinees of the juvenile age with a high level of experience of mythological fears and examinees of the juvenile age whose level of experience of mythological fears is not high.The authors have used the author’s questionnaire consisting of 24 questions and 5 scales for revealing the level of experience of mythological fears (fear of possession by a jinni), gender classification and distribution of subgroups according to the degree of expressiveness of mythological fears. For revealing individual differences of all the examinees and distinctions in the individual sphere of those with high and average levels of experience of mythological fears irrespective of sex assignment the authors have used: H. Eysenck’s technique for revealing temperament; the locus of control test developed by Rotter; G. Shmishek’s questionnaire for assessing character accentuations; J. Taylor’s analysis of the level of anxiety (T. A. Nemchinova’s adaptation).All the obtained results are described in the article and given in tables.