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Predicting Relationship Help Seeking Prior to a Marriage Checkup
C J Eubanks Fleming1, James V Córdova
1Psychology Department, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610, (252) 725-5146, cjfleming@clarku.edu.
Family Relations
|May 12, 2012
Summary
Couples
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Family Studies
Background:
- Limited research exists on factors motivating couples' relationship help seeking.
- Understanding these motivators is crucial for developing effective interventions.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the link between attitudes towards relationship help seeking and actual help-seeking behaviors in couples.
- To examine the association between marital quality and couples' help seeking.
Main Methods:
- The study was conducted within the framework of the Marriage Checkup, a brief intervention program.
- Data were collected to assess attitudes, behaviors, and marital quality related to help seeking.
Main Results:
- Couples' help-seeking attitudes and behaviors were found to be unrelated.
- Wives' marital quality negatively correlated with both wives' and husbands' help seeking.
- Husbands' marital quality did not show an association with their own help seeking.
Conclusions:
- The process of couples' help seeking appears distinct from individual help seeking.
- The female partner seems to be the primary driver of help-seeking initiation in relationships.
- Findings have implications for relationship counseling theories and treatment strategies.
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