What’s Love Got to Do With It? Improving the Effect of Marriage Education

Abstract: Meta-analytic research on the effect of marriage and relationship education (MRE) over the past forty years has identified only a small overall effect size on relationship quality measures within experimental-design studies. In an effort to increase the effect size of marriage education, this study introduced a new educational objective and measure within an eight-session, group-format course. The curriculum focused on developing habits to increase feelings of romantic love as a way to improve marital adjustment (Four Gifts of Love Class, FGL). Eleven couples (N = 22) residing in the Philippines were randomly assigned to FGL (G1) or delayed FGL-control (G2). The results demonstrated a large effect size on measures of marital adjustment (d = 1.11, p < .01) and romantic love (d = 0.68, p < .05). In addition, after G2 completed FGL, their gains matched the gains of G1, and the gains were sustained at the three follow-up periods. https://interpersona.psychopen.eu/index.php/interpersona/article/view/3599

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: What’s Love Got to Do With It? Improving the Effect of Marriage Education ; volume:13 ; number:2 ; day:20 ; month:12 ; year:2019 ; Interpersona ; 13, Heft 2 (20.12.2019)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Jennifer Harley Chalmers

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/ijpr.v13i2.361
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020101418325649627872
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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