Moral Attitudes in Poland: “Towards”, “Away” and “Against People” – Socio-Cultural Determinants and Religious Implications. Based on European Values Study 2017

Dominik Szczygielski

doi:10.18290/rns2023.0032

Published : 2023-09-29

Vol. 51 No. 3 (2023)

Moral Attitudes in Poland: “Towards”, “Away” and “Against People” – Socio-Cultural Determinants and Religious Implications. Based on European Values Study 2017

Dominik Szczygielski

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4111-9924

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rns2023.0032

Abstract

According to the latest research institutional trust may serve as a significant predictor of prosociality. The main purpose of this article is to examine types of trust as predictors of moral attitudes “towards”, “away” and “against” people. Another aim is to examine institutional trust as a predictor of moral attitudes in correlation to other significant predictors, like religiousness, education and size of town. This paper presents analysis in the course of which interpersonal and institutional trust has been confirmed as alternative (potentially competing) predictors of moral attitudes than other established variables, e.g., religiousness. Presented findings allow to pose the question about the future of religion in stable, democratic societies.

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prosociality, social trust, institutional trust, moral orientations, civil religion

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