Promoting healthy beginnings: a randomized controlled trial of a preventive intervention to preserve marital quality during the transition to parenthood.

Abstract:

:Couples expecting their first child were randomly assigned to intervention (n=28) and comparison groups (n=38) to assess the efficacy of a couples intervention and examine marital satisfaction trajectories across the transition to parenthood. The primarily European American sample (M age=30 years) completed assessments of marital satisfaction at 5 points from the final trimester of pregnancy to 66 months postpartum. Growth curve analyses indicated a normative linear decline in marital satisfaction. Intervention participants experienced significantly less decline than comparison participants, providing support for the efficacy of the intervention. Comparable childless couples (n=13) did not show a decline in marital satisfaction. The results suggest that early family transitions that strain couple relationships provide critical opportunities for preventive interventions to strengthen marriage.

journal_name

J Consult Clin Psychol

authors

Schulz MS,Cowan CP,Cowan PA

doi

10.1037/0022-006X.74.1.20

keywords:

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-02-01 00:00:00

pages

20-31

issue

1

eissn

0022-006X

issn

1939-2117

pii

2006-03253-003

journal_volume

74

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