Influence of Confessional Beliefs on Professional Activity of Specialists of Guardianship and Custody Bodies under Conditions of Uncertainty

<p>The article examines the influence of religious beliefs on the professional activities of specialists of guardianship and custody agencies in conditions of uncertainty, including legislative gaps. The study focuses on the specifics of the work of specialists belonging to different confessions (Orthodoxy and Islam) and those who do not define their religious affiliation. The empirical study covered three groups of respondents aged 20 to 55 years (mean age — 40.5 years, SD ± 2.35), among whom all participants were women. The following methods were used for the analysis: the Religious Orientation Scale (G. Allport, D. Ross), the Resilience Test (E.N. Osin, E.I. Rasskazova), the Dispositional Optimism Questionnaire (T.O. Gordeeva, O.A. Sychev, E.N. Osin), and the adapted methodology “Compassion Fatigue in helping professions” (D.A. Orlova, A.P. Lobanov). The author's socio-demographic questionnaire was also developed to collect additional data on specialists. The results of the study showed that not so much religion itself, but rather the degree of religiosity (compliance with the prescriptions of sacred texts) have an impact on the effectiveness of specialists' work in conditions of uncertainty.</p>