Academic Scientific JournalsReligiosity of adult people with low vision in the context of its structure and determinants
Keywords:
low vision, religiosity, sociodemographic determinants, medical determinantsAbstract
The literature on the subject, especially the foreign one, has long seen the authors’ interest in the religiosity of disabled people. However, few works so far have raised the topic of the religiosity of people with low vision. The purpose of the conducted study is to characterize the religiosity of people with low vision in the context of structure and in terms of sociodemographic and medical determinants. The study included 119 persons with low vision. The measurement of religiosity was performed with the use of S. Huber’s The Centrality of Religiosity Scale (C-15). The study has shown that the respondents with low vision display generally moderate centrality i.e. heteronomous religiosity. Most of the respondents (nearly half of them) represents a pattern of religiosity characterised by the highest, in comparison to other types, intensification of all the dimensions of centrality of religiosity. It has been also determined that sociodemographic (such as age and sex) and medical (the age of acquiring visual impairment and its degree) variables play an important role in the religiosity of respondents with low vision.
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