Religious motivation, anger management style, and temperament of two groups of seminarians

• Main Author: Rajendram, Stalin G.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2001
• Subjects: Seminarians; Religious motivations; Temperament; Anger; Educational Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/2966
• Institution: De La Salle University

This descriptive, comparative and correlation study was conducted among major seminarians in Metro Manila who were composed of two groups: the philosophers (n = 59) who were in the early stage of priestly formation and the theologians (n = 39) who were in the late stage of formation. It investigated whether there was any significant difference between the two groups in terms of religious motivation and anger management style and if there was any correlation between religious motivation and the following three variables age, stages of formation, anger management style. The study showed that the theologians were significantly higher in the level of religious motivation than philosophers. No significant difference was noted in anger management style between the theologians and the philosophers. In terms of temperament, most of the philosophers and theologians were extroverted and Sensing Judging (SJ) individuals. All the four temperaments (sensing judging, sensing perceiving, intuitive feeling and intuitive thinking) had high-level religious motivation and there was no particular temperament that had high-level religious motivation. No correlation was found between religious motivation and anger management style however, there was positive correlation found among religious motivation, stages of formation and age. The findings have practical relevance for seminarians, formators, and counselors.