The purpose of this study was to find out if there is a relationship between intrinsic and extrinsic religious motivation religious concept.
In general psychology, motivation is defined as the interaction between insticvtive desire ans mental consciou...
The purpose of this study was to find out if there is a relationship between intrinsic and extrinsic religious motivation religious concept.
In general psychology, motivation is defined as the interaction between insticvtive desire ans mental consciousness. In religious psychology, religious motivation is defined as the religious desires, the intricsic powers and the spiritual values shich complete the integration the personality and which tend toward the Absolute.
For Christians who have intrinsic motivation, the relationship with God becomes the supreme value and they purely devote their lives to God. On the contrary, for the Christians who have extrinsic motivation, the desire toward God has a tendency to satisfy their instinctive needs and they abuse religion as one way to fulfill their needs.
Religious motivation is built up through the interaction between the cognition of religion, and instinctive desire.
To determine the relationship between the intellectual concept and the intrinsic and extrinsic religious motivation, a questionnaire was developed and distributed to 371 Hangook and Seoul Samyook High School students that were over 18years old. The results were analyzed using t-tests, F-tests and x2(chi-square) with the help of the SPSS computer program. The results are as follow:
1. Students who recognize the concepts of the Scripture in a positive way have intrinsic religious motivation.
2. Students who recognize the concepts of the Scripture in a way have extrinsic religious motivation.
3. students who graduated from Sahyook Middle Schools have a greater tendency to demonstrate extrinsic religious motivation who graduated from other Middle Schools.
4. Students born to Christian parents are more likely to have intrinsic religious motivation than those who have lived as Christians less than five years.
These result suggest that there is an interrelationship between the intrinsic and extrinsic religious motivation and the Biblical perception. Mature religious motivation may be built up by change of one's cognition through religious motivation education.
This study recommends that the changes toward mature religious motivation be as follows:
1. Religious motivation is built up through the interaction between the cognition of religion, and instinctive desires. This study describes describes the former as "
Intellectual motivation" and the later as "Internal motivation"
2. In religious motivation education, the teaching method that builds up intellectual motivation help one to think by oneself. This may be achieved through structural learning which step by step enlarges and deepens the basic concepts about the Scripture, byt not through a fragmentary way and learning through cramming.
3. The method of the religious motivation education for intricsic motivation should be efficient and practical education providing the learner with the opportunity to experience repentance or religious desire to apply his intellectual cognition in real religious life, and to study the religious life by himself.When one realizes the fact that concepts from the Scriptures fit into life, he naturally begins to desire the Words from the Scriptures and the religious life. Religious motivation education is then reconciled with intellectual and practical education.