Spiritualita u studentů sociální pedagogiky a dalších oborů pomáhajících profesí

Spirituality is currently one of the most frequently discussed concepts. Spiritual orientation manifests itself in both personal and professional life. This applies especially in helping professions in which it plays an important role due to the nature of their activities. Based on that, this work presents a probe into the spirituality of students of social pedagogy and four other disciplines from among helping professions. The research involved a total of 334 students. To detect a degree of spirituality in different groups, a Spiritual Orientation Inventory (Elkins et al., 1988) was used. The research showed that among the students of each course there are noticeable differences in the degree of spirituality; sociodemographic data play a role, too, especially sex and subjectively evaluated faith. An interesting finding is mainly that a higher degree of spirituality in the investigated sample is reported by men. Within the surveyed courses the highest degree of spirituality was found in students of psychology