The Premarital Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP) Involves Couples Meeting in Small

question 50

Multiple Choice

The Premarital Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP) involves couples meeting in small groups to discuss marital relations and to learn communication skills. What has research revealed concerning the effectiveness of this program?

• A) Couples that go through this program report higher marital satisfaction than control couples.
• B) Couples that go through this program report less marital satisfaction than controls three years later.
• C) Couples that go through this program report more satisfaction, but also more conflict than controls.
• D) Despite the best of intentions of its developers, the program has little effect on marital satisfaction.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values.

Interquartile Range

The difference between the third quartile (75th percentile) and the first quartile (25th percentile), a measure of variability that indicates the spread of the middle 50% of a dataset.

Coefficient Of Variation

A standardized measure of dispersion of a probability distribution or frequency distribution, calculated as the ratio of the standard deviation to the mean, expressed as a percentage.

Range

The difference between the highest and lowest values in a dataset.