Vaishnava’s Internal Religious Motivation
The division of the religious motivation into extrinsic and intrinsic can be found in the research works of G. Allport. However, the idea has been developed and now we can come across various terminology and constructs concerning the internal motivation. The concept of internal motivation due to I. Stoykovich and G. Mirich is based on the empirical material and reflects natural connections between different factors. That is an undisputable advantage of this concept. We have used the questionnaire of I. Stojkovich and G. Mirich for our study of the internal motivation of the Society for Krishna Consciousness followers (the Vaishnavas) in Russia. 115 participants have been involved in our research. We have observed that the Society representatives are highly internally motivated to religion and have no intention of fitting the social expectations. Faith is their source of emotional wellbeing, ideals and morality. They do not feel that religion is a part of their national traditions. It has turned out that the tendency to use religion as means for desires fulfillment depends more on the personal attitudes than on the collective ones.
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