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- Title
A randomized trial of relationship education using Within Our Reach for economically vulnerable couples.
- Authors
Barden, Sejal M.; Carlson, Ryan G.; Dillman Taylor, Dalena; Dickenson, Tammiee; Gao, Ruiqin
- Abstract
Couples relationship education is grounded in teaching couples' skills and strategies to form and sustain healthy relationships. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the impact of a relationship education intervention on emotion regulation, individual distress, dyadic coping, and relationship adjustment utilizing a randomized control trial for economically vulnerable couples. The analysis sample included 1418 couples (2836 individuals) who were randomly assigned to receive the 12‐h Within Our Reach curriculum immediately, or to a wait‐list control group. We estimated multilevel growth curve models over time among outcomes between treatment and wait‐list control conditions. Treatment group couples demonstrated statistically significant improvements over the 6‐month study period on emotional regulation and dyadic coping when compared to their wait‐list group counterparts. Although models showed improvements in individual distress and relationship adjustments, these improvements did not amount to statistically significant group differences. Implications and limitations are also noted.
- Subjects
EFFECT sizes (Statistics); COUPLES therapy; SPOUSES; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; COMPARATIVE studies; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; COMMUNICATION; INTERPERSONAL relations; QUESTIONNAIRES; CHI-squared test; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; EMOTION regulation; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; STATISTICAL sampling; PSYCHOLOGICAL distress
- Publication
Family Process, 2022, Vol 61, Issue 3, p1005
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/famp.12781