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Method
Participants
There were 22 participants in the study. Of the 22 participants, all 22 of them were
female. All of the participants in the study were volunteers. All of the participants completed
their survey online.
Materials
The surveys were administered online with a privacy disclosure explaining that all
answers are anonymous, and the information would not be shared publicly as the survey is for
educational purposes only. The survey created was made up of 9 questions. There was one
demographic question which inquired of gender; male or female. There was one question take
from the Duke University Religion Index (DUREL) which inquired of the participants’ non-
institutional religiosity by inquiring how often they participated in private religious practices
such as Bible reading and prayer throughout the week (Koenig & Bussing, 2010). The survey
concluded with 7 questions inquiring about stress in daily life as feeling easily agitated or being
really touchy. The questions on stress come from the DASS-21 (Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995).
The participants responded the questions on stress pertaining to how they felt within the last
week.
Procedure
The research method was non-experimental. The participants took the survey online.
Before they were allowed to access to the survey they had to confirm they were older than 15
years old. The participants were then given access to the survey via an internet link. They were
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given as much time as needed to complete all nine questions. The participants were allowed to
complete the survey only once.
Analysis
A Spearman’s correlation will be conducted to analyze whether there is a relationship
between an individual’s non-organizational religious practices (praying, reading scripture, etc.)
and their reported levels of stress in day to day life.
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