Conflict Strategies, Spiritual Meaning, and Spiritual Disclosure Across Various Relationships

This study examined conflict resolution styles across marriages, dating and engaged relationships, and friendships, with the expectation that people in each type of relationship will utilize different conflict strategies. It also explored the relationships among spiritual disclosure, conflict strategies, and spiritual meaning. Sixty-seven college students were recruited as couples, including 29 men and 38 women, each in either a marriage, dating/engaged relationship, or friendship, with a mean age of 20.94. Each participant was asked to complete a Spiritual Meaning Scale (Mascaro et al., 2004), a Spiritual Intimacy Scale (Mahoney et al., 2020), and the conflict frequency and conflict strategies subsections of the Conflicts and Problem-Solving Scales (Kerig, 1996). The results from three One-way ANOVAs failed to support the hypothesis that there would be differences in conflict strategies across various relationship. There was a significant Pearson product-moment correlation between spiritual disclosure and collaboration strategies (r(63), = .49, p\u3c .001), but no correlations were found between spiritual disclosure and conflict frequency, and spiritual disclosure and spiritual meaning. The results of this research indicate that all types of relationships can utilize constructive or destructive conflict strategies. It also implies that spiritual intimacy and collaboration tend to be present together. Future researchers should study this relationship for causality to develop resources to help all relationships experience more intimate and healthy interactions

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: Children\u27s Understanding of God in Three Persons

What do kids know about God, in particular God in the three parts of the trinity? In this ongoing research we are interviewing children to investigate their understanding of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. We are recruiting local children, between the ages of 3 and 12 years old to interview over Zoom. Once interviews are complete we will explore common themes and understandings of God and how these might change over time

Can God lift a heavy rock? The relationship between beliefs about God\u27s power and prayer practice

Research on adult petitionary prayer indicates domain differences in prayer requests with adults are more likely to ask God for psychological than biological or physical interventions. What people pray for may depend on their view of what God can do. Do adult beliefs in what God can do also vary by domain? Do mainstream Christian adults view each person in the Trinity as equally omnipotent? Are God concepts related to prayers? In Study 1, adult participants completed a questionnaire consisting of questions about what different agents (God, a superhero, and a Dad) can do. The actions varied by domain (physical, biological, and psychological). Participants were asked for explanations for each response and asked questions about demographics, religious affiliation and religious practices. In Study 2, adults completed a questionnaire with a prayer scale (Ladd & Spilka, 2005) and questions about what different members of the Trinity and a teacher can do in different domains. Results will be discussed in terms of differences in responses for agents and domain and connections between God concepts and prayer