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PERSONAL CONSTRUCT
THEORY & PRACTICE
Vol.16
2019

An Internet Journal devoted to the Psychology of Personal Constructs

 
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"IN WHOM CONFIDE?"
EXPLORING THE CHRISTIAN CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVE


Valentina Sosero


Institute of Constructivist Psychology, Padua, Italy

  



Abstract

The religious dimension can represent an important aspect in a person’s life. How can Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) contribute to the understanding of this construction?
The present work is an exploration of religious constructions in a group of Catholic-Christian believers, as well as in a group of people who do not feel represented by a religious credo. We will make some hypotheses and reflections around the construct of spirituality explored in both the research groups. Finally, we will use the PCP professional construct of “dependency dispersion” to understand to whom the people of both groups turn to, when they are in need.
The present research finds its roots in a personal journey taken in the religious domain. If up until a certain point religion was, in the author’s experience, a matter of ultimate truth, meeting Kelly and Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) transformed it into something that could be looked at in different ways. In other words, PCP offered a key to overcoming the “true-not true” opposition and construing religion into new ways that gave deep meanings to what constitutes a more or less elaborative choice.
 
Keywords: religion, spirituality, dependency, PCP



 


About the author


Valentina Sosero is a psychologist attending the 4th year of a psychotherapy diploma at the Institute of Constructivist Psychology in Padua. She deals with activities in schools to support and integrate teaching with specific projects on classroom wellbeing and school orientation. One of her interests is exploring the dimension of parenthood and working with children and adolescents through the PCP perspective.

Contact: valentina.sosero@libero.it





Reference

Sosero, V. (2019). “In whom confide?”: Exploring the Christian-Catholic perspective.
Personal Construct Theory & Practice, 16
, X-X

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Last update: 15 March 2019