Prayer as a Conflict Resolution Ritual: Clinical Implications of Religious Couples' Report of Relationship Softening, Healing Perspective, and Change Responsibility

By M. H. Butler, Julie Stout, Brandt C. Gardner. 2002

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How Religiosity Helps Couples Prevent, Resolve, and Overcome Marital Conflict* (2006, background): “Similar to the results of this study, Butler et al. (2002) found that prayer facilitates couple empathy, increased selfchange focus, and encouraged couple responsibility for reconciliation and problem solving.”
SPIRITUAL BEHAVIORS AND RELATIONSHIP SATISFACTION: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF PRAYER (2008, background): “In fact, Butler et al. (2002) found prayer to meaningfully contribute to a perceived relationship with God, which promoted mindfulness of, and accountability to, God.”
Sanctification, Stress, and Marital Quality (2011, background): “…sanctification construct; there is reason to believe that such efforts may bear fruit, especially given couples’ self-reports of prayer and its effects on conflict (Butler et al., 2002) and recent findings about the relationship benefits of prayer in experimental research (Fincham et al., 2010).”