Premarital Counseling Couple Of College Students

Premarital prevention is defined as knowledge and skills-based training thatprovides couples with information on ways to sustain and improve their relationshiponce they are married (Senediak,1990). The premarital prevention includes thepremarital education, premarital therapy, premarital preparation and premaritalcounseling. In this research the premarital prevention includes premarital educationand premarital counseling, aiming at helping the couples strengthening theirrelationship to have a better marriage. The studies abroad already havewell-developed questionnaires, premarital prevention programs and evaluationmethods while the study in China is still on the beginning. This research intends tostudy the feasibility and effectiveness of the premarital prevention program in China.Relationship Evaluation Questionnaire has been widely used to evaluate therelationship between couples abroad but the application of RELATE questionnaire inChina needs more study. In this research243college students in Shanghai are used assamples to testify the validity and the reliability of the satisfaction subscale, thecommunication subscale and the conflict resolution subscale of RELATEquestionnaire. The result shows that the internal consistencies of these subscales are0.825,0.895and0.896and the indicators of the validity are good. And the RELATEquestionnaire is used to evaluate the current situations of the romantic relationshipof the college students.To identify the application and the effectiveness of the premarital preventionprogram to the college students, the researcher recruits volunteers from ShanghaiNormal University, Shanghai International Business and Economics University，Donghua University and Shanghai International Studies University. The volunteersneed to have a romantic relationship more than six months and have intention to getmarried. The research intends to improve their relationship satisfaction through theintervention of their family of origin, communication, conflict resolution andmarriage expectation. In the premarital prevention program, the research uses theintervention group and non-intervention group design. The intervention group takes the pretest and posttest and don’t participate any premarital program. After thepretest the intervention group accepts four sessions’ programs and the posttest aretaken after the intervention. By comparing the change of the pretest and the protestof the two groups, the evaluations are made to indentify the effectiveness of theprograms.The main conclusions are as follows:1.The satisfaction subscale, the communication subscale and the conflictresolution subscale of RELATE questionnaire have good reliability and validity.2.The females have higher relationship satisfaction and communication abilitythan the males.3.The couples who have intention to get married have higher relationshipsatisfaction, communication and conflict resolution ability than those who have nointention to get married at present.4.The couples who have intention to participate the premarital prevention havehigher communication ability than those who have no intention.5.Through the intervention of the family of origin, communication, conflictresolution and marriage expectation, the relationship satisfaction and the effectivecommunication of the couples are improved.