Intercessory prayer in psychological well-being: Using a multiple-baseline, across-subjects design

Psychological Reports

Volumn 91, Issue 3 PART 1, 2002, Pages 731-741

  Tloczynski, Joseph ^a   Fritzsch, Sonja ^a  

^a BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELIGION; STUDENT; TYPE A BEHAVIOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANIFEST ANXIETY SCALE; MMPI; RELIGION; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENTS; TYPE A PERSONALITY;

EID: 0036981901     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2002.91.3.731     Document Type: Article

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