Hawkins Alan J, Blanchard Victoria L, Baldwin Scott A, Fawcett Elizabeth B
School of Family Life, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602-6723, USA.
J Consult Clin Psychol. 2008 Oct;76(5):723-34. doi: 10.1037/a0012584.
In this meta-analytic study, the authors examined the efficacy of marriage and relationship education (MRE) on 2 common outcomes: relationship quality and communication skills. A thorough search produced 86 codable reports that yielded 117 studies and more than 500 effect sizes. The effect sizes for relationship quality for experimental studies ranged from d = .30 to .36, while the communication skills effect sizes ranged from d = .43 to .45. Quasi-experimental studies generated smaller effect sizes, but these appeared to be due to pretest group differences. Moderate-dosage programs produced larger effect sizes than did low-dosage programs. For communication skills, published studies had larger effects than those of unpublished studies at follow-up; there were no publication differences for relationship quality. There was no evidence of a gender difference. Unfortunately, a lack of racial/ethnic and economic diversity in the samples prevented reliable conclusions about the effectiveness of MRE for disadvantaged couples, a crucial deficit in the body of research. In addition, intervention outcomes important to policy makers, such as relationship stability and aggression, rarely have been addressed.
在这项荟萃分析研究中，作者考察了婚姻与关系教育（MRE）对两个常见结果的有效性：关系质量和沟通技巧。全面检索得出86篇可编码报告，产生了117项研究及500多个效应量。实验研究中关系质量的效应量范围为d = 0.30至0.36，而沟通技巧的效应量范围为d = 0.43至0.45。准实验研究产生的效应量较小，但这似乎是由于预测试组差异所致。中等剂量方案产生的效应量比低剂量方案更大。对于沟通技巧，已发表的研究在随访时的效果比未发表的研究更大；关系质量方面不存在发表差异。没有证据表明存在性别差异。遗憾的是，样本中缺乏种族/族裔和经济多样性，这使得无法就MRE对弱势夫妻的有效性得出可靠结论，这是该研究主体中的一个关键缺陷。此外，对政策制定者很重要的干预结果，如关系稳定性和攻击性，很少得到探讨。
