Does Relationship and Marriage Education for Lower-Income Couples Work? A Meta-Analytic Study of Emerging Research

摘要: While a large number of studies have documented how couple education programs can strengthen relationships, few tested these on lower-income, higher-risk couples. Yet over the past decade, state and federal governments been experimenting with supporting designed to help lower-income couples form sustain healthy marriages relationships. This article reports findings meta-analytic study effectiveness targeted We examined evaluation data from 15 found small-to-moderate effects. For three control-group studies, we overall effect was d = .250 (p < .05). 12 one-group/pre-post .293 .001). These effects are relatively similar those for MRE middle-income participants other family-support educational programs. Implications educators are...