Abstract
The present work proposes a psychological study via beliefs, about the origin of life, death and life after death. Beliefs have played a decisive role in the development of humanity [1], from the primitive man who gave to the unknown divine forces, the judgments of the Holy Inquisition in the Medieval Age, the impact provoked by the conviction that the Earth was round on the belief of a flat Earth and many other beliefs that sustain the behavior of the human being. In this context, the need arose to investigate the beliefs held by inhabitants of the Metropolitan Area of Mexico City towards the origin of life, death and life after death and with it, to know if there are differences in function of age and schooling; for this, the scale of Silva, Herrera and Corona [2] was applied and with the purpose of obtaining the t of Student and ANOVAS the statistical package SPSS version 21 was used. The results show statistically significant differences between beliefs and sociodemographic variables age and schooling. Schooling: The more educated the population in general, the less likely they are to have religious beliefs. Age: The group of people between 35 and 45 years old are the ones who show a tendency to believe in scientific postulates about death, unlike those who are 60 years old and older.
Highlights
When referring to the psychological thought of the human being, we immersed the conception about life and death because they represent their greatest enigmas
With the purpose of knowing the beliefs that inhabitants of the Metropolitan Zone of Mexico City have towards the origin of life, death and life after death according to their age and schooling, the analysis of the Students t for independent samples and analysis of variance (ANOVA)
The scientific study of the beginnings of the world has raised, in historically recent times, the biological questions or not of the origin of life; the existence or not of life after death; as well as, the conflicts that arise between scientific and academic communities, the diverse explanations provided by science and religion to these phenomena of reality
Summary
When referring to the psychological thought of the human being, we immersed the conception about life and death because they represent their greatest enigmas. Being for that reason, the foundation of the beliefs that the human being has had around its origin, death and subsequent lives throughout history Various disciplines such as Social Anthropology, Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology, Medicine or Neuroscience have ventured into the phenomenon of beliefs, as a basis to understand human behavior. Believing is a universal constant, belief was usually related to religion, belief is revealed as an ontological condition of the human being [3, 4] In this contextual framework, denominating the intangible is something really complicated and subjective; sometimes the concept of belief is diffuse [4, 5], and in spite of the numerous investigations carried out controversial questions still exist around its definition [6]. One could argue that whether or not there is a belief within a material objective order is of secondary importance compared to the reality with which people believe in its existence (p.62)
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