Editorial: Funding Couple and Family Research

Lebow, Jay L.

doi:10.1111/famp.12192

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“…In consensus with our state's Coordinator of Head Start programs, there is reason to recommend enhanced family programming and services that include relationship education for parents in Head Start as a means for promoting interparental relationships, enhancing positive parenting practices, and promoting children's prosocial behaviors in the classroom as they enter kindergarten. We join other scholars (Lebow, 2015) in encouraging support for continued efforts to assess experiences in RME in detail so as to uncover the elements of the program design and participant characteristics that best explain positive results. This research can inform the development of models of best practices for diverse populations of RME participants.…”

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The Effects of Mother Participation in Relationship Education on Coparenting, Parenting, and Child Social Competence: Modeling Spillover Effects for Low‐Income Minority Preschool Children

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Although suggestions are that benefits of relationship and marriage education (RME) participation extend from the interparental relationship with parenting and child outcomes, few evaluation studies of RME test these assumptions and the relationship among changes in these areas. This quasi-experimental study focuses on a parallel process growth model that tests a spillover hypothesis of program effects and finds, in a sample of low-income minority mothers with a child attending a Head Start program, that increases in mother reports of coparenting agreement for RME participants predict decreases in their reports of punitive parenting behaviors. Although improvements in parenting behaviors did not predict increases in teacher reports of children's social competence, improvements in coparenting agreement were associated with increases in children's social competence over time. In addition, comparative tests of outcomes between parents in the program and parents in a comparison group reveal that RME program participants (n = 171) demonstrate significant improvements compared to nonparticipants (n = 143) on coparenting agreement, parenting practices, and teachers' reports of preschool children's social competence over a 1 year period. The findings are offered as a step forward in better understanding the experiences of low-resource participants in RME. Implications for future research are discussed.

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The Effects of Mother Participation in Relationship Education on Coparenting, Parenting, and Child Social Competence: Modeling Spillover Effects for Low‐Income Minority Preschool Children

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“…The MAS potentially could be scored in available data sets to test new hypotheses about dyadic discord's bidirectional relations with the onset and treatment of a variety of illnesses. Especially because funding of couple research has been limited recently (Lebow, 2015), using the MAS may provide an efficient means to continue and expand research on marital adjustment and dyadic discord. In addition to depression, marital adjustment is relevant to wide variety of illnesses including cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, respiratory disease, arthritis, diabetes, cancer, chronic pain, obesity, and hypertension (Robles et al, 2014).…”

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Psychometric properties of the Marital Adjustment Scale during cognitive therapy for depression: New research opportunities.

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Clark²,

Thase³

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Poor dyadic adjustment in marital or similar relationships is common among patients seeking individual cognitive therapy (CT) for major depressive disorder (MDD). Here we examined the psychometric properties of the marital adjustment subscale (MAS) of the Social Adjustment Scale-Self-report (SAS-SR; Weissman & Bothwell, 1976). Among married or cohabiting patients receiving individual CT for recurrent MDD (N ϭ 306) in the context of two randomized controlled trials, the MAS demonstrated moderate internal consistency and test-retest reliability, strong convergence with the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (Spanier, 1976), and moderate relations with interpersonal problems and depressive symptoms. Controlling baseline depressive symptom severity, greater pre-CT relationship discord on the MAS predicted less reduction in depressive symptom severity and lower odds of depression remission during CT. These results support the reliability, validity, and potential utility of the MAS. Using the MAS may help investigators "mine" existing data sets including the SAS-SR to further understanding of dyadic functioning and its potential impact on depression treatment and other health outcomes. Public Significance StatementThis study provided evidence that the Marital Adjustment Scale is a useful measure of the quality of marital or similar relationships and helps predict whether patients with depression will have good outcomes if treated with cognitive therapy.

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Editorial: Funding Couple and Family Research

Cited by 2 publications

References 27 publications

The Effects of Mother Participation in Relationship Education on Coparenting, Parenting, and Child Social Competence: Modeling Spillover Effects for Low‐Income Minority Preschool Children

The Effects of Mother Participation in Relationship Education on Coparenting, Parenting, and Child Social Competence: Modeling Spillover Effects for Low‐Income Minority Preschool Children

Psychometric properties of the Marital Adjustment Scale during cognitive therapy for depression: New research opportunities.

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