Family-of-origin intervention: An intergenerational approach to enhancing marital adjustment

The present study endeavors to meet the pressing need for empirical validation within the field of marital and family therapy and represents the first published statistical test of significance measuring the increasingly popular intergenerational family-of-origin treatment intervention. The major hypothesis of this replication study proposed that subjects receiving a family-of-origin therapeutic intervention would score higher on expressed amounts of marital adjustment than subjects not receiving the intervention. A multiple regression analysis was utilized for its adaptability to designs with unequal cell sizes and the categorization of continuous variables.