The Quiet Virtue Speaks: An Intervention to Promote Humility
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 2014
Publication Source
Journal of Psychology and Theology
Volume Number
42
Issue Number
1
First Page
99
Last Page
110
Publisher
Rosemead School Psychology
ISSN
0091-6471
Abstract
Empirical interest in virtues and their benefits has increased in recent years. In the present study, we test the efficacy of a workbook intervention to promote humility. Participants (N = 59) were randomly assigned to a humility condition (n = 26; 7.5-hour workbook) or a control condition (n = 33; non-action). Participants in the humility condition reported greater increases in humility across time than did participants in the control condition, who did not change in humility over time. Participants in the humility condition also increased in forgivingness and patience and decreased in general negativity more than did participants in the control condition. Our findings demonstrate the efficacy of the intervention with both religious and non-religious individuals, consistent with both a Christian and secular classical valuing of humility.
Keywords
Personality Judgment, Index
Recommended Citation
Lavelock, Caroline R., Everett L. Worthington, Don E. Davis, Brandon J. Griffin, Chelsea A. Reid, Joshua N. Hook, and Daryl R. Van Tongeren. “The Quiet Virtue Speaks: An Intervention to Promote Humility.” Journal of Psychology and Theology 42, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 99–110.
