Abstract
Women provide the vast majority of unpaid family work, with deleterious associated outcomes including lost jobs, increased poverty, relationship dissatisfaction, and mental health concerns. Women’s unequal share of family work increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, and their mental health concerns were exacerbated. To prevent struggles with mental health and promote healthy communication and equal family work distribution, the PARTNERS communication model and an innovative online video intervention were created to teach college women about the importance of equitable family work distribution and healthy communication. Findings from this study suggested the PARTNERS intervention was effective in educating 303 undergraduate women about family work distribution, couple communication, and a model of effective communication, and improving college women’s confidence communicating with a romantic partner. Should these findings be replicated, the PARTNERS intervention may serve as a fiscally sustainable prevention model for future widespread service delivery to educate college women about family work distribution and effective communication and improve their confidence communicating with a romantic partner. Ultimately, this intervention may serve as a mechanism for social justice by contributing to the equalization of family work distribution, thus improving women’s relationship satisfaction and mental health.
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