The COVID-19 pandemic changed how short-term relationship and marriage education (RME) reached participants for events such as the Utah Marriage Celebration Conference. This article examines participant-perceived relationship knowledge from an annual marriage conference that began prior to the pandemic and has continued through the disruption…

Based on a nationally representative sample of adult Poles (N = 1,004), we examined structural relationships between financial knowledge, skills, confidence, attitudes, and behavior in debt-domain. We found that financial confidence--at least regarding debt-related issues--is tied to debt attitudes and behavior beyond the extent to which the…

Acquiescence is often defined as the systematic selection of agreeable ("strongly agree") or affirmative ("yes") responses to survey items, regardless of item content or directionality. This definition implies that acquiescence is immune to item characteristics; however, the influence of item characteristics on acquiescence…

TWO HUNDRED REPRESENTATIVE ADULTS AGED 21-69 IN EIGHT NORTHEAST NEBRASKA COUNTIES, WERE STUDIED TO DETERMINE COMPONENTS OF FUTURE PARTICIPATION IN ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMS (DEFINED IN TERMS OF EXPRESSED LEARNING INTEREST). EARLIER RESEARCH HAD ESTABLISHED THAT PARTICIPATION MAY BE DEFINED IN TERMS OF EXPRESSED LEARNING INTEREST, AND THAT AGE,…