Relationship satisfaction trajectories among low-income ethnic minority couples before and after a relationship education intervention

Liu, Xun; Wheeler, Naomi J.; Broda, Michael; Daire, Andrew P.; Dominguez, Vanessa; Griffith, Sandy‐Ann M.; Pease, Jenene Case

doi:10.1177/0265407520916203

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“…These articles demonstrated participants' improved relationship satisfaction after receiving targeted relationship interventions for either African American couples (Barton, Beach, Bryant, et al, 2018;Barton, Beach, Wells, et al, 2018) or low-income couples (Gordon et al, 2019); researchers also reported several outcome differences between genders in other relationship programs (e.g., Knobloch-Fedders et al, 2015;McGill et al, 2016). Results from these and other studies showed that relationship intervention programs may lead to improvement in relationship outcomes for vulnerable and underserved groups of couples with multiple risk factors (Gordon et al, 2019;Liu et al, 2020;McGill et al, 2021).…”

Section: Contextual Effectsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Taking stock of the longitudinal study of romantic couple relationships: The last 20 years

Galovan

Orbuch

Shrout

et al. 2022

Personal Relationships

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Longitudinal dyadic research provides significant benefits for our understanding of romantic couple relationships. In this systematic review, we begin by providing a broad overview of topical trends and approaches in longitudinal couple relationships research from 2002 through 2021. Then, we narrow our review to dyadic relationship quality articles, highlighting key themes as well as noting important gaps in the research. Using an intersectional perspective that acknowledges multiple ways that disadvantage, power, and oppression may be seen in both research and in couples' lived experience, we note prominent paradigms used in examining couple relationships, what types of questions have been most valued, and what groups and approaches are underrepresented in the literature. Most longitudinal couple relationships research is quantitative, relies on self‐report approaches from American couples in the early‐to‐middle years of their relationships, concentrates more on negative aspects of relationships than positives, and takes a communication‐satisfaction paradigm in studying couples. We see a clear need to increase the use of methodologies beyond self‐report measures, conduct more studies with within‐group minority, older adult, culturally‐diverse, and context‐specific samples to explore the diversity of relationships, and fully consider both strengths and positive processes in relationships as well as the challenges couples experience.

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Section: Contextual Effectsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Taking stock of the longitudinal study of romantic couple relationships: The last 20 years

Galovan

Orbuch

Shrout

et al. 2022

Personal Relationships

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“…Since 2006, most CRE program studies were necessarily focused more on formative and descriptive evaluation designed to explore methods for community engagement and retention in programs (e.g., Gaubert et al, 2012; Williamson et al, 2019) and to assess indications of post‐program changes among participants in the short‐term, without asserting efficacy (Stanley et al, 2020). Thus, a large collection of recent studies of CRE provide descriptive information on pre/post changes, as well as trajectories of change and comparisons within the participant sample (e.g., by gender, Carlson et al, 2017, 2019; by distress level, Hawkins & Ooms, 2012; Liu et al, 2020; Quirk et al, 2014). Simultaneously, but at a slower rate, efficacy studies of CRE curricula emerged (e.g., Cowan & Cowan, 2014; Doss et al, 2020; Lundquist et al, 2014; Moore et al, 2018; Roddy et al, 2020; Stanley et al, 2014; Wood et al, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

Concurrent randomized control trials of the 1‐year efficacy of two couple relationship education programs: ELEVATE and Couples Connecting Mindfully

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A long-standing university-community partnership used a longitudinal randomized control trial to implement and evaluate two couple relationship education (CRE) curricula, ELEVATE and Couples Connecting Mindfully (CCM), among an economically and racially diverse population of adult couples. Married and non-married couples (n = 929 couples) completed baseline surveys and were randomly assigned to either one of the two program groups or to the control group by implementation site. Follow-up surveys were collected at 2 months, 6 months, and 1 year after baseline. Using an intent-to-treat approach, growth curve modeling comparisons of trajectories indicated program effects at 1 year post-baseline in key outcome areas. Both the ELEVATE and the CCM group reported significant gains in couple relationship skills, couple quality, and family harmony over time compared to the control group that experienced either no change or declines. Further, the ELEVATE group also demonstrated positive program effects on measures of mental health and sleep quality. An assessment of the central premise of CRE indicated that the immediate post-program improvements in couple relationship skills predicted later couple quality for both program groups. This study indicates that both

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“…In other words, participating in CRE might help men become more aware of skills that enhance relationship quality, and because their partner was already practicing these skills our findings suggest men were more inclined to adopt and apply these CRS as well. Finding significant partner effects in CRE research is rare (e.g., McGill et al, 2016; Liu et al, 2020), so it is possible that our finding is an anomaly; further research is warranted to better understand these linkages.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 93%

Non-relative foster caregivers’ changes in mindfulness and couple relationship skills following relationship education

Richardson

Mallette

Futris

et al. 2023

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Foster caregivers experience many challenges related to fostering which, for those in a committed couple relationship, may impact the health of that relationship. Recent efforts have been made to provide couple relationship education (CRE) to foster caregivers to provide them with the knowledge and skills to develop and maintain a healthy relationship with their partner amidst the challenges of fostering. Further, recent studies have begun to examine changes in other skills that may hinder or promote changes in couple relationship skills following participation in CRE programs. One such parallel process may be changes in mindfulness, which may promote or hinder change in couple relationship skills following a CRE program. Guided by adult learning theory and utilizing a repeated measures actor-partner interdependence model (RM-APIM), the current study aims to examine foster caregiver couples’ change in relationship skills after participating in the CRE program ELEVATE and to examine how changes in mindfulness may moderate change in couple relationship skills. Findings suggest that both men and women report significant improvements in both mindfulness and couple relationship skills following participation in ELEVATE and that change in mindfulness moderates change in couple relationship skills for women.

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Relationship satisfaction trajectories among low-income ethnic minority couples before and after a relationship education intervention

Cited by 3 publications

References 73 publications

Taking stock of the longitudinal study of romantic couple relationships: The last 20 years

Taking stock of the longitudinal study of romantic couple relationships: The last 20 years

Concurrent randomized control trials of the 1‐year efficacy of two couple relationship education programs: ELEVATE and Couples Connecting Mindfully

Non-relative foster caregivers’ changes in mindfulness and couple relationship skills following relationship education

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