Do You Want to Be Made Well? A Beginning Study of the Attitudes of Black Male Pastors toward Unauthorized Intimate Activities and Support Required to Heal Harmful Habits
[Thesis]
Bradford, Napoleon Abram
Gise-Johnson, Alison P
Virginia Union University
2020
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D.Min.
Virginia Union University
2020
The objectives of this project related to the attitudes of Black male pastors toward unauthorized intimate activities were three-fold: The participants would identify their participation in unauthorized intimate activities, identify them as wrong, and indicate a desire to stop. The hypotheses were the majority of Black male pastors who participated in unauthorized intimate activities unknowingly, would anonymously admit to participating in them, state they wanted to stop, and list the support they needed to stop. The candidate implemented a survey instrument based on the Infidelity Scale. After analyzing the results, clinically, the majority of the participants that admitted to practicing the behaviors agreed the behaviors were wrong, and they wanted to stop.