The effects of home-based couple relationship education on couple relationships, mental health and work performance

婚姻危机和分居造成了巨大的痛苦，每年给澳大利亚社会造成至少50亿美元的损失。本研究评估一个创新的关系教育计划，夫妻可以在家里完成。本研究测试了教育是否能提高夫妻关系满意度，哪些夫妻受益，项目如何达到效果，以及改善的夫妻关系是否能提高伴侣的心理健康和工作绩效。这个项目可能会减少婚姻问题带来的巨大的个人和社会成本，为国家带来好处，同时也会提供一种潜在的重要新产品，具有巨大的出口潜力。

Marital distress and separations cause great suffering and cost the Australian community at least $5 billion annually. This research evaluates an innovative relationship education program that couples can complete at home. The research tests whether the education enhances couples' relationship satisfaction, which couples benefit, how the program achieves its effects, and whether improved couple relationships enhances partners' mental health and work performance. The program might provide national benefit in reducing the enormous personal and social costs of marital problems, as well as providing a potentially important new product with significant export potential.