Intercessory Prayer in Psychological Well-Being

Using a Multiple-Baseline, Across-Subjects Design

Bibliographic Data

ID13673284
AuthorsJoseph Tloczynski (Bloomsburg University, corresponding author), Sonja Fritzsch (Bloomsburg University)
Year2002
Volume91
Issue3
Pages731-741
Publication date2002-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/pr0.2002.91.3.731
PMID12530716
OpenAlexW2057277959
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited8

Undergraduates from an upper-level psychology course were volunteer participants in the study. The 8 participants were to be prayed for in a Multiple Baseline Across Subjects research design, which included a 1-week minimum baseline period for all subjects followed by the sequential presentation of the independent variable so that every two weeks, two additional subjects were being prayed for until all but 2 participants, who maintained baseline, were exposed to being prayed for at 7 weeks. All participants were prayed for by one of the experimenters using a nondirective method of prayer where no specific requests were made. All subjects completed the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale on a daily basis for 5 weeks and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 on a weekly basis for 7 weeks. Analysis of data identified significant reductions in anxiety scores on both the tests for subjects who were prayed for but not for those who were not prayed for. Subjects' lower mean anxiety scores somewhat matched the sequential timing of being prayed for

Anxiety · Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory · Personality · Prayer · Psychiatry · Theology · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology

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