ArticleJournal of marriage and the family2017
Is Communication a Mechanism of Relationship Education Effects among Rural African Americans?
Article in Journal of marriage and the family, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Improving Couples' Relationship Functioning Leads to Improved Coparenting: A Randomized Controlled Trial With Rural African American Couples.Behavior therapy · 2019Trial
- The Protecting Strong African American Families Program: a Randomized Controlled Trial with Rural African American Couples.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2018Trial
- Stress spillover, African Americans' couple and health outcomes, and the stress-buffering effect of family-centered prevention.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2018Trial
- Behaviors Associated With Improved Relationship Satisfaction: Examining Change in the Relationship Checkup.Family process · 2026Article
- Testing Whether Protective Parenting is a Causal Mediator of Intervention Effects on Decreased Delinquency Using a Randomized Prevention Trial.Justice quarterly : JQ · 2024Article
- The protective effects of perceived gratitude and expressed gratitude for relationship quality among African American couples.Journal of social and personal relationships · 2023Article
- Helping couples achieve relationship success: A decade of progress in couple relationship education research and practice, 2010-2019.Journal of marital and family therapy · 2022Review
- When poor communication does and does not matter: The moderating role of stress.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2020Observational
- Research on Marital Satisfaction and Stability in the 2010s: Challenging Conventional Wisdom.Journal of marriage and the family · 2020Article
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Abstract
Enhancing communication as a means of promoting relationship quality has been increasingly questioned, particularly for couples at elevated sociodemographic risk. In response, the current study investigated communication change as a mechanism accounting for changes in relationship satisfaction and confidence among 344 rural, predominantly low-income African American couples with an early adolescent child who participated in a randomized controlled trial of the Protecting Strong African American Families (ProSAAF) program. Approximately 9 months after baseline assessment, intent-to-treat analyses indicated ProSAAF couples demonstrated improved communication, satisfaction, and confidence compared with couples in the control condition. Improvements in communication mediated ProSAAF effects on relationship satisfaction and confidence; conversely, neither satisfaction nor confidence mediated intervention effects on changes in communication. These results underscore the short-term efficacy of a communication-focused, culturally sensitive prevention program and suggest that communication is a possible mechanism of change in relationship quality among low-income African American couples.
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