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Closeness and Control: Exploring the Relationship Between Prayer and Mental Health

Author(s) -

Jeppsen Benjamin,

Pössel Patrick,

Black Stephanie Winkeljohn,

Bjerg Annie,

Wooldridge Don

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

counseling and values

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.354

H-Index - 35

eISSN - 2161-007X

pISSN - 0160-7960

DOI - 10.1002/cvj.12012

Subject(s) - prayer , closeness , psychology , mental health , social psychology , control (management) , psychotherapist , clinical psychology , religious studies , philosophy , mathematical analysis , mathematics , management , economics

This study explored closeness to God and God‐mediated control as mediators in the relationship between prayer and mental health. The authors tested 3 models for mediation using structural equation modeling to assess the separate and combined effects in an online sample of 330 praying adults from predominantly Christian backgrounds. Although both mediators were relevant when entered separately, closeness to God proved to be a superior mediator when both variables were entered in 1 model. Counselors should consider prayer behaviors when culturally relevant and encourage meditative and colloquial prayer for clients where increased sources of perceived social support would be beneficial.

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