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The effects of marriage education for Army couples with a history of infidelity.
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PMID:  22229880     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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While existing literature has begun to explore risk factors which may predict differential response to marriage education, a history of couple infidelity has not been examined to determine whether infidelity moderates the impacts of marriage education. The current study evaluated self-report marital satisfaction and communication skills in a sample of 662 married Army couples randomly assigned to marriage education (i.e., PREP) or a no-treatment control group and assessed prior to intervention, post intervention, and at 1 year after intervention. Of these, 23.4% couples reported a history of infidelity in their marriage. Multilevel modeling analyses indicated that having a history of infidelity significantly moderated the impact of PREP for marital satisfaction, with a trend for a similar effect on communication skills. However, couples with a history of infidelity assigned to PREP did not reach the same levels of marital satisfaction after intervention seen in the group of couples without infidelity assigned to PREP, although they did show comparable scores on communication skills after intervention. Implications of these findings for relationship education with couples with a history of infidelity are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).
Authors:
Elizabeth S Allen; Galena K Rhoades; Scott M Stanley; Benjamin Loew; Howard J Markman
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Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2012-1-9
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Title:  Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43)     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1939-1293     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2012 Jan 
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Created Date:  2012-1-10     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
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Nlm Unique ID:  8802265     Medline TA:  J Fam Psychol     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
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