| Variable | Group | Type | Mean | Adjusted mean | SD | Adjusted SD |
Marital adjustment | Dyadic satisfaction | Experimental | Pretest | 29.00 | 41.26 | 3.04 | 1.42 |
Posttest | 40.42 |
| 6.24 |
| |||
Control | Pretest | 32.92 | 33.15 | 4.01 | 1.42 | ||
Posttest | 34.08 |
| 4.83 |
| |||
Dyadic cohesion | Experimental | Pretest | 10.92 | 17.62 | 2.23 | 0.92 | |
Posttest | 17.83 |
| 4.26 |
| |||
Control | Pretest | 13.25 | 13.87 | 2.66 | 0.92 | ||
Posttest | 13.67 |
| 2.06 |
| |||
Dyadic consensus | Experimental | Pretest | 13.92 | 50.45 | 8.36 | 1.85 | |
Posttest | 48.50 |
| 5.50 |
| |||
Control | Pretest | 40.58 | 41.30 | 6.17 | 1.85 | ||
Posttest | 41.50 |
| 4.89 |
| |||
Affectional expression | Experimental | Pretest | 8.75 | 13.93 | 2.63 | 0.71 | |
Posttest | 13.33 |
| 2.57 |
| |||
Control | Pretest | 10.00 | 10.72 | 1.80 | 0.71 | ||
Posttest | 10.67 |
| 1.49 |
|