The Family Journal Pub Date : 2021-07-12 , DOI: 10.1177/10664807211023928 Samta P. Pandya 1
This article reports a study on the effectiveness of WhatsApp-based spiritual posts in promoting connectedness and adjustment among ever-single heterosexual couples in nonmarital cohabitation in four global cities. In comparison with trivia posts, the spiritual posts had greater impact and were more effective for Christian couples, middle class, highly qualified, and professionals-salaried cohabitants. This was in comparison with Hindu–Buddhist–Sikh dyads, upper class, with college degree, and entrepreneurs. However, cohabitation duration, initial cohabitation experience with other partners, having children/cohabitation dependents, and near future marriage plans were not significant predictors. Gender also did not significantly moderate spiritual intervention responses as proposed in the previous research. Couple intervention outcomes were mutually interdependent and intervention compliance in terms of number of posts read and do-it-yourself exercises posted were robust predictors of intervention success. With some subgroup-specific refinements, WhatsApp-based spiritual posts would be an effective spiritually sensitive social work intervention for improving relationship quality of nonmarital cohabitants.
中文翻译:
非婚同居中的单身异性恋伴侣:灵性、连通性和调整
本文报告了一项关于基于 WhatsApp 的精神帖子在促进全球四个城市非婚同居的单身异性恋夫妇之间的联系和调整方面的有效性的研究。与琐事帖子相比,精神帖子对基督徒夫妇、中产阶级、高素质和专业薪水的同居者影响更大,更有效。这与印度教-佛教-锡克教二人组、上层阶级、大学学位和企业家相比。然而,同居持续时间、与其他伴侣的初始同居经历、有孩子/同居受抚养人以及近期的婚姻计划并不是重要的预测因素。性别也没有显着缓和先前研究中提出的精神干预反应。夫妻干预结果是相互依存的,就帖子阅读数量和自己动手做的练习而言,干预依从性是干预成功的有力预测因素。通过一些针对特定小组的改进,基于 WhatsApp 的精神帖子将成为一种有效的精神敏感的社会工作干预措施,可改善非婚同居者的关系质量。