Social and psychological factors of youth involvement in religious and cult organizations through the Internet

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10.2991/ismge-19.2019.92How to use a DOI?

Keywords

religious organization, involvement in religious organizations, social-psychological factors, social-psychological characteristics of the individual

Abstract

The main goal of religious and cult organizations is to attract new adherents through special psychological and manipulative techniques. Such methods of influence cannot be applied to every person, therefore, there are a number of certain mental and social determinants, through which it becomes possible to involve a new person in a religious organization. Thus, the aim of the study is to assess the determinants of involvement of young people to religious and cult organizations to identify groups of factors and characteristics of relations in the family, social-psychological characteristics of the individual, as well as the impact of the Internet on the involvement of young people in religious organizations. The theoretical analysis revealed the determinants of youth involvement in religious organizations. Factor analysis brought to light 4 groups of factors of youth involvement in religious organizations. The study identified social-psychological differences between young people, involved in religious organizations and those, who are not involved in religious organizations.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Oksana Mironova
AU  - Victoria Akimova
AU  - Oksana Ivanova
AU  - Olga Polyakova
PY  - 2019/07
DA  - 2019/07
TI  - Social and psychological factors of youth involvement in religious and cult organizations through the Internet
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Scientific Practical Conference "The Individual and Society in the Modern Geopolitical Environment" (ISMGE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 481
EP  - 487
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ismge-19.2019.92
DO  - 10.2991/ismge-19.2019.92
ID  - Mironova2019/07
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