Modeling Long-Term Parent Outcomes of Two Universal Family-Focused Preventive Interventions: One-Year Follow-Up Results

The present investigation extended prior work by R. Spoth, C. Redmond, and C. Shin (1998) . These researchers reported findings that 2 universal family-focused preventive intervention programs each had direct effects on a proximal parenting outcome (intervention-targeted parenting behaviors) and indirect effects on 2 global and distal outcomes (parent-child affective quality and general child management) at posttesting. A replication of the previously tested parenting outcome model was conducted with 1-year follow-up data and procedures identical to those used in the earlier study. Results of the present study ( N = 404 families) indicate that statistically significant effects on parenting outcomes were sustained through a 1-year period following the posttest.