Integrating Models of Interdependence With Treatment Evaluations in Marital Therapy Research

Clinical intervention may not be the only source of change in the behavior of husbands and wives during marital therapy. Spouses may continue to influence each other, though perhaps in ways different than they did before treatment. Viewed as a short longitudinal study of marital interaction, a prete...

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Published in:Journal of family psychology 1998-12, Vol.12 (4), p.529-542
Main Author: Cook, William L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavior
Biological and medical sciences
Experimentation
Female
Human
Husbands
Influences
Interdependence
Interpersonal Influences
Interpersonal interaction
Male
Marital psychotherapy
Marital Relations
Marital relationships
Marital therapy
Marriage Counseling
Medical sciences
Posttesting
Pretesting
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Psychotherapies. Psychological and clinical counseling
Spouses
Structural Equation Modeling
Structural equation models
Therapy
Treatment Effectiveness Evaluation
Treatments
Wives
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Summary:Clinical intervention may not be the only source of change in the behavior of husbands and wives during marital therapy. Spouses may continue to influence each other, though perhaps in ways different than they did before treatment. Viewed as a short longitudinal study of marital interaction, a pretest-posttest trial of marital therapy can provide information on the short-term processes of interpersonal influence or interdependence that occur over the course of treatment. Moreover, interpersonal processes and treatment processes may combine to produce unique clinical outcomes. This article presents 3 structural equation models of marital interdependence that can be applied to pretest-posttest data from clinical trials of marital therapy. Modifications of these models that include a treatment variable are also presented. These models provide tests for treatment effects that are unique to interventions into relationship systems.
ISSN:0893-3200
1939-1293
DOI:10.1037/0893-3200.12.4.529