Table 2.

Descriptive statistics and the comparison of therapy effects for men and women

Variables	Scale range	Men			Cohen’s d	Baseline M (SD)	Women		Cohen’s d
		Baseline M (SD)	Posttest M (SD)	t			Posttest M (SD)	t
POS. spiritual coping	1–5	3.45 (.83)	3.67 (.69)	2.58*	.34	3.54 (.66)	3.94 (.63)	5.03***	.67
NEG. spiritual coping	1–5	2.15 (.85)	1.87 (.63)	−2.41*	−.32	2.51 (.82)	2.03 (.75)	−4.51***	−.60
Positive personal	1–5	3.81 (.86)	3.97 (.77)	1.22	.16	3.86 (.72)	4.29 (.58)	5.48***	.71
Positive social	1–5	3.96 (.86)	3.91 (.66)	−.47	−.06	3.92 (.64)	4.15 (.71)	2.61*	.27
Positive environmental	1–5	3.15 (1.21)	3.46 (1.09)	2.11*	.28	3.17 (1.04)	3.60 (.95)	3.90***	.52
Positive religious	1–5	2.88 (1.40)	3.23 (1.31)	2.43*	.32	3.20 (1.34)	3.83 (1.07)	4.30***	.57
Negative personal	1–5	2.41 (1.30)	2.11 (.99)	−1.75a	−.23	2.95 (1.15)	2.17 (.89)	−5.06***	−.68
Negative social	1–5	1.93 (.89)	1.82 (.81)	−.89	−.12	2.24 (.90)	1.96 (.92)	−2.04*	−.27
Negative religious	1–5	1.87 (1.01)	1.69 (.75)	−1.21	−.16	2.34 (1.21)	1.95 (1.04)	−2.61*	−.34
Forgiveness	1–5	3.12 (.64)	3.13 (.66)	.22	.03	2.98 (.70)	3.21 (.68)	2.66*	.36
Forgiveness of self	1–5	2.44 (1.00)	2.47 (1.18)	.22	.03	2.30 (1.07)	2.26 (1.02)	−.28	−.04
Forgiveness of others	1–5	3.43 (.81)	3.40 (.87)	−.27	−.04	3.13 (.71)	3.50 (.74)	4.12***	.55
Feeling of being forgiven by God	1–5	3.53 (1.24)	3.46 (1.18)	−.48	−.06	3.46 (1.39)	3.92 (1.22)	2.84**	.38
Gratitude	6–42	30.19 (7.05)	31.02 (6.35)	1.17	.16	29.39 (6.66)	31.64 (6.50)	3.08**	.41

^a p ∈ [.05; .1); * p < .05; ** p < .01; *** p < .001