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Enhancing Marital Enrichment Through Spirituality: Efficacy Data For Prayer Focused Relationship Enhancement, Steven R. Beach, Tera R. Hurt, Frank D. Fincham, Kameron J. Franklin, Lily M. Mcnair, Scott M. Stanley
Enhancing Marital Enrichment Through Spirituality: Efficacy Data For Prayer Focused Relationship Enhancement, Steven R. Beach, Tera R. Hurt, Frank D. Fincham, Kameron J. Franklin, Lily M. Mcnair, Scott M. Stanley
Tera R. (Hurt) Jordan
We examined 393 African American married couples assigned to (a) a culturally sensitive version of a widely disseminated relationship enhancement program (CS-PREP) (b) a similar version of the same program that also included a focus on prayer (PFP condition), or (c) an information-only control condition in which couples received a self-help version of the same program. Husbands averaged 40.5 years of age and wives averaged 38.9 years. We found a significant interaction between intervention and time of assessment, reflecting group differences in linear trends for the three conditions, with the two intervention conditions performing better than the control condition, and …