@article{ref1,
title="Does youth relationship education continue to work after a high school class? A longitudinal study",
journal="Family relations",
year="2007",
author="Gardner, Scott P. and Boellaard, Rila",
volume="56",
number="5",
pages="490-500",
abstract="Connections: Relationships and Marriage (Connections) is a high school marriage education curriculum designed to teach students how to develop healthy relationships and marriages. This study evaluated the effectiveness of this curriculum over 4-years postintervention with a matched set of 72 high school students who were in either the Connections group or a control group. Findings suggest that although most of the immediate impacts of the curriculum fade within 4 years after the curriculum, the Connections group shows an increase in self-esteem, a decrease in dating and relationship violence, and an increase in family cohesion over 4 years. Implications for further development of such curricula are discussed as well as implications for practitioners.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0197-6664",
doi="10.1111/j.1741-3729.2007.00476.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-3729.2007.00476.x"
}