Abstract
ABSTRACT Community-based couple relationship education (CRE) focuses on skill-building for healthy couple functioning. Using a family systems perspective, it also can be assumed that participation in CRE will positively affect parenting and young children’s development due to expected linkages, yet comparatively few studies of CRE have tested these assumptions. We used a racially and economically diverse sample of 388 adults in the U.S. with children ages 18 months to 5 years who participated in a randomized control trial of CRE impact to test for positive couple, family, parent, and child outcomes. We find evidence of positive programme impact on couple relationship quality, couple relationship skills, and family harmony over a 6 month period. We also find some effects on parenting efficacy, punitive parenting, and children’s aggression that differed by mother and father report and by age group of child (e.g. toddler/preschooler). Implications for both research and practice are offered.
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