Abstract：
Sexual intimacy, characterized as the experience between individuals of sharing general affection and sexual activity with one another within the Personal Assessment of Intimacy in Relationships inventory, is positively related to relationship satisfaction and stability. However, many studies of couple therapy have shown that it only results in small-sized (and often non-significant) improvements in sexual intimacy. Furthermore, there are numerous financial, logistical, and psychological barriers to couple therapy. Thus, the current study sought to examine whether two brief online relationship education programs (OurRelationship and ePREP) could overcome these barriers and yield similar-sized effects to more intensive couple therapy. In two independently collected samples of low-income couples (NSample 1 = 742 Couples; M AgeSample 1 = 33.19; NSample 2 = 671 Couples; M AgeSample 2 = 33.48), the current study found that: OurRelationship (d = 0.24-0.28) and ePREP (d = 0.26-0.34) produced small-sized changes in sexual intimacy relative to a waitlist control condition in both samples, the magnitude of the effect size replicated in a second sample and, with rare exception, these changes were generally not moderated by key variables of interest. Given that web-based relationship education is significantly shorter, less expensive, and more accessible than in-person couple interventions, web-based relationship education could be considered a viable candidate for couples experiencing concerns with sexual intimacy.
摘要：
性亲密,表征为个人之间的经验分享一般的感情和性活动与彼此在个人评估亲密关系清单内，与关系满意度和稳定性呈正相关。然而,许多关于夫妻治疗的研究表明，它只会导致小尺寸的（通常是不显著的）性亲密关系的改善。此外，有许多金融，后勤,夫妻治疗的心理障碍。因此，本研究旨在研究两种简短的在线关系教育计划(OurRelationship和epREP)是否能够克服这些障碍,并产生与更密集的夫妻治疗相似的效果.在两个独立收集的低收入夫妇样本中（NSample1=742对；MAgeSample1=33.19；NSample2=671对；MAgeSample2=33.48），当前的研究发现：OurRelationship（d=0.24-0.28）和epREP（d=0.26-0.34）在两个样本中相对于等候名单控制条件的性亲密关系产生了小范围的变化，在第二个样本中复制的效应大小的大小，除了罕见的例外，这些变化通常不受感兴趣的关键变量的调节.鉴于基于网络的关系教育明显缩短，更便宜，比面对面的夫妻干预更容易获得，基于网络的关系教育可以被认为是一个可行的候选人，为夫妇经历性亲密关系的问题。
