Religious motivation, interpersonal values, and satisfaction with religious life of Franciscan formandi in three stages of formation

• Main Author: Shaw, SebastianFrancis, OFM
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 1998
• Subjects: Religious motivations; Religious life; Values; Interpersonal relations > Religious aspects; Satisfaction; Franciscans; Monasticism and religious orders; Counseling
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/1876
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study investigates the relationship between religious motivation and interpersonal values of the Franciscan formandi as well as to find out if there is a significant correlation between religious motivation and interpersonal values after the effect of satisfaction with religious life has been held constant. Moreover the research attempts to seek if novices, simple professed and solemn professed are significantly different in terms of: religious motivation and satisfaction with religious life.The descriptive correlational research design was utilized. Data was collected by the use of three instruments, namely, (a) Religious Motivation Review, (b) Gordon Survey of Interpersonal Values and (c) Questionnaire concerning Satisfaction with Religious Life. The respondents of this study were 13 novices, 25 simple professed and 10 solemn professed Franciscan formandi in Metro Manila in their three stages of formation, between the age of 22 to 35 with mean of 25. One-way ANOVA was used to compare the religious motivation and satisfaction with religious life of the three groups. Pearson's Product Moment was done to establish the relationship between religious motivation and interpersonal values. By the use of Partial Correlation the significant correlation between religious motivation and interpersonal values was determined after the effect of satisfaction with religious life was removed. The findings revealed that the novices were significantly different from simple professed (p .05) and from solemn professed (p .01). No significant difference existed between simple professed and solemn professed on religious motivation. In terms of interpersonal values, significant difference was found only between solemn professed and novices on leadership (p .01) while no significant difference existed among novices, simple professed, and solemn professed in terms of support, conformity, recognition, independence, and benevolence value. In terms of satisfaction with religious life the novices were significantly different from simple professed (p .05) and from solemn professed formandi (p .01). The simple professed and solemn professed formandi were not significantly different from each other. Significant negative correlation was observed between religious motivation and support value (r= -.321, p .05) while no significant correlation was found between religious motivation and other five interpersonal values, namely, conformity, recognition, independence, benevolence and leadership of the Franciscan formandi. Moreover there was no significant correlation between religious motivation and support value after the effect of satisfaction with religious was removed. Based on the findings it can be stated that formandi's moving from one stage of formation was not a guarantee of increase of religious motivation. Increase in level of satisfaction with religious life can increase the level of religious motivation. Furthermore, as the Franciscan students grew higher in their religious motivation they became less dependent on external support and encouragement.