Relationship education (RE) has shown promise as an effective intervention for couples. Yet, challenges exist with retaining low-income couples and federal funding required that grantees provide at least 12 h of core content. We conducted a follow-up analysis to a randomized trial of RE with low-income couples. We focused on couples randomly assigned to the treatment (N = 579) and examined the influence of intervention hours on emotion regulation, dyadic coping, and individual distress at 1 and 6-month follow-up. Results of longitudinal actor-partner interdependence models indicated that women who completed the program reported fewer difficulties in emotion regulation at 6-month follow-up than women who attended fewer intervention hours. Additionally, men who completed reported more individual distress at 1-month follow-up than men who attended fewer hours. Given that most couples were Hispanic, we conducted an exploratory analysis to examine language as a covariate with mixed results.

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检查随机分配接受关系教育的夫妇参加的干预时间

关系教育（RE）已显示出作为夫妻有效干预措施的前景。然而，留住低收入夫妇仍存在挑战，而且联邦资助要求受资助者提供至少 12 小时的核心内容。我们对一项针对低收入夫妇的 RE 随机试验进行了后续分析。我们关注随机分配接受治疗的夫妇（N = 579）并在 1 个月和 6 个月的随访中检查了干预时间对情绪调节、二元应对和个体痛苦的影响。纵向演员-伴侣相互依赖模型的结果表明，完成该项目的女性在 6 个月的随访中报告的情绪调节困难比参加干预时间较少的女性要少。此外，完成任务的男性在 1 个月的随访中比参加时间较少的男性报告了更多的个人痛苦。鉴于大多数夫妇都是西班牙裔，我们进行了一项探索性分析，将语言作为协变量进行检验，结果好坏参半。