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Article: Behavioral and Social Sciences paper abstract.(Author abstract)
- Article from:
- Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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HOLY OR HOLIER THAN THOU: EFFECTS OF PRAYER ON MMPI-2 SCALES. Daphne O. Garner, Brianna Morton and Larry W. Bates. Dept. of Psychology, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL 35632.
Prayer is one of the most common behaviors within most religious systems, yet data concerning this simplest of religious acts is sparse. The primary purpose of this research was to investigate whether the act of praying would differentially affect the validity scales of the MMPI-2. Other religious measures, the Structured Prayer Scale and Intrinsic-Extrinsic-Revised Scale, were acquired for correlational analyses. There were 59 university students who were randomly assigned to one ...