Change on psychological scales following Buddhist and Roman Catholic retreats.
Orthogonal contrasts of Adjective Checklist pretest-posttest change scores obtained from adolescents who attended three-day Buddhist or Roman Catholic retreats (n = 204) and no treatment control participants (n = 102) indicated those who attended had higher change scores and greater change occurred among those attending the Buddhist meditation retreat.
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California School of Professional Psychology 94501, USA. ctori@mail.cspp.edu
D000293:Adolescent; D002016:Buddhism; D002410:Catholicism; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007899:Leisure Activities; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D010552:Personality Assessment; D012069:Religion and Psychology