Brigham Young University, School of Family Life, 2086 JFSB, Provo, UT, 84602, USA.
J Youth Adolesc. 2018 Mar;47(3):477-489. doi: 10.1007/s10964-017-0725-1. Epub 2017 Aug 16.
Despite recent policy initiatives and substantial federal funding of individually oriented relationship education programs for youth, there have been no meta-analytic reviews of this growing field. This meta-analytic study draws on 17 control-group studies and 13 one-group/pre-post studies to evaluate the effectiveness of relationship education programs on adolescents' and emerging adults' relationship knowledge, attitudes, and skills. Overall, control-group studies produced a medium effect (d = .36); one-group/pre-post studies also produced a medium effect (d = .47). However, the lack of studies with long-term follow-ups of relationship behaviors in the young adult years is a serious weakness in the field, limiting what we can say about the value of these programs for helping youth achieve their aspirations for healthy romantic relationships and stable marriages.
尽管最近有政策举措和大量联邦资金用于为年轻人提供以个体为导向的关系教育计划，但这个不断发展的领域尚未进行过荟萃分析评论。这项荟萃分析研究借鉴了 17 项对照组研究和 13 项单组/前后测研究，评估了关系教育计划对青少年和刚成年的关系知识、态度和技能的有效性。总体而言，对照组研究产生了中等效应（d=0.36）；单组/前后测研究也产生了中等效应（d=0.47）。然而，该领域严重缺乏对年轻人多年后关系行为的长期随访研究，这限制了我们对这些项目帮助年轻人实现健康恋爱关系和稳定婚姻愿望的价值的了解。
