Department of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Denver, CO 80217, USA.
J Fam Psychol. 2012 Feb;26(1):26-35. doi: 10.1037/a0026742. Epub 2012 Jan 9.
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.
虽然现有文献已经开始探讨可能预测对婚姻教育产生不同反应的风险因素，但尚未研究夫妻不忠的历史，以确定不忠是否会影响婚姻教育的效果。本研究在一个由 662 对已婚陆军夫妇组成的样本中评估了自我报告的婚姻满意度和沟通技巧，这些夫妇被随机分配到婚姻教育（即 PREP）或无治疗对照组，并在干预前、干预后和干预后 1 年进行了评估。其中，23.4%的夫妇报告在婚姻中有过不忠行为。多层次模型分析表明，有不忠历史的夫妇的 PREP 对婚姻满意度的影响显著，对沟通技巧的影响也有类似的趋势。然而，与没有不忠史而被分配到 PREP 的夫妇相比，有不忠史而被分配到 PREP 的夫妇在干预后并没有达到相同的婚姻满意度水平，尽管他们在干预后在沟通技巧方面的得分相当。讨论了这些发现对有不忠史的夫妇关系教育的意义。
