Abstract
A “quiet time” refers to the private spiritual practice of reading the Bible, praying, and meditating on one’s own initiative outside of religious sanctioned events. This study examines the effect of a self-management intervention on establishing and maintaining the habit of a daily quiet time. The study’s hypotheses predicted there would be an increase in quiet time 1) frequency, 2) duration, and 3) overall satisfaction from the baseline phase to the intervention phase. Data was collected via a daily check-in and pretest/posttest surveys, and participants attended an in-person intervention to determine how to apply self-management tactics to their own personal quiet times. Based on visual, statistical, and qualitative analysis, there was no significant increase in quiet time duration or overall satisfaction between the baseline and intervention phase. Statistical analysis indicated a significant increase in quiet time frequency, but there was no such indication in the visual analysis. As a result, there was no evidence supporting the self-management intervention that was linked to any improvement in quiet time habits. These findings are most likely the result of poor control of extraneous variables, concurrency, and experimental design flaws.
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Branson, Noah R.
(2024)
"Quiet Times: The Application of Self-Management to Private Spiritual Practices,"
Steeplechase: An ORCA Student Journal: Vol. 8:
Iss.
1, Article 14.
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https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/steeplechase/vol8/iss1/14