Trial reportBehavior therapy2019
Improving Couples' Relationship Functioning Leads to Improved Coparenting: A Randomized Controlled Trial With Rural African American Couples.
Trial report in Behavior therapy, 2019. 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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13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Secondary benefits of a brief couples intervention on coparenting through relationship quality and partner conflict.Infant mental health journal · 2025Trial
- A culturally grounded prenatal coparenting intervention: Results of a randomized controlled trial with unmarried Black parents.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2022Trial
- Protective parenting behavior buffers the impact of racial discrimination on depression among Black youth.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2021Trial
- Can Interventions that Strengthen Couples' Relationships Confer Additional Benefits for their Health? A Randomized Controlled Trial with African American Couples.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2021Trial
- Can We Uncouple Neighborhood Disadvantage and Delinquent Behaviors? An Experimental Test of Family Resilience Guided by the Social Disorganization Theory of Delinquent Behaviors.Family process · 2020Trial
- Direct and indirect effects of a couple-focused preventive intervention on children's outcomes: A randomized controlled trial with African American families.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2020Trial
- Relationship enhancement protects against relationship-quality-associated weathering among Black adults in romantic partner relationships.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2025Article
- A method and approach for evaluating coparenting events during couples group interventions.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Neighborhood disadvantage is associated with biological aging: Intervention-induced enhancement of couple functioning confers resilience.Family process · 2023Article
- Enduring COVID-19 lockdowns: Risk versus resilience in parents' health and family functioning across the pandemic.Journal of social and personal relationships · 2022Article
- Relationship intervention indirectly buffers financial strain's effect on biological aging among Black adults.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2022Article
- 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
- Improvements in coparenting conflict and child adjustment following an online program for relationship distress.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2020Article
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Abstract
Family-centered prevention programs for couples with children are being increasingly disseminated, with the hope that improving couples' romantic relationships will lead to other benefits for families. To date, however, it is unclear whether these interventions do in fact yield these benefits. The current study addressed this gap by examining whether postintervention improvements in couples' relationship functioning following family-centered prevention predicted longer-term change in coparenting, and whether postintervention improvements in coparenting predicted longer-term change in relationship functioning. We used four waves of data collected over 2 years from 346 rural African American couples with an early adolescent child who participated in a randomized controlled trial of the Protecting Strong African American Families (ProSAAF) program, an intervention designed to promote strong couple, coparenting, and parent-child relationships in two-parent African American families. Results indicated that ProSAAF had significant short-term positive effects on both romantic relationship functioning and coparenting and that these effects did not differ in magnitude. Over time, however, only romantic relationship functioning postintervention was positively associated with long-term changes in coparenting; coparenting postintervention was not associated with long-term changes in relationship functioning and this association was significantly weaker than the other pathway. These findings support a key premise underlying relationship enhancement programs for parents, indicating that improving couples' romantic relationship functioning can have longer-term benefits for the coparenting relationship as well. Further research examining long-term parent, child, and family outcomes following family-centered prevention for couples and the mechanisms of change underlying these outcomes is needed.
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