Strengthen Relationship Satisfaction
Strengthen Relationship Satisfaction
A workbook for the CSI-4: place your overall score, look underneath it at what's actually carrying it, turn a wish into a concrete request -- and stay with it for four weeks. For yourself alone, or as a conversation together.
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The CSI-4 uses four questions to measure one single, global thing: how satisfied you are, overall, with your relationship. It's scored as a sum from 0 to 21; a score below 13.5 points to notable relationship dissatisfaction according to the original study, and that threshold has replicated well in later research. But the number doesn't say what's behind it, and it barely distinguishes within the satisfied range. That's exactly where this workbook picks up: it turns the one number into four weeks of concrete work -- for yourself alone, and as a conversation together if you both want that. Throughout, it captures your own view of the relationship, not your partner's.
What's inside
- How to use this workbook -- what the CSI-4 measures, what it can't tell you, and how the four weeks are structured
- Your baseline: your score and the 13.5 threshold, your four individual answers, your first reaction
- Satisfaction map: rate eight areas by satisfaction and importance, and pick two to focus on
- What lifts the score, what lowers it: collect good and hard moments for a week and spot the pattern
- Satisfaction journal: four weeks, one short check-in each week plus one good and one hard moment
- From wish to request: take one area and turn a complaint into a specific, positively worded request
- The conversation together (optional): structure, sentence starters, and a shared template
- Four-week look back: retake the CSI-4, compare, what helped, and when counseling makes sense
- Notes and sources
Free preview: Satisfaction journal (page 6)
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Scientific basis
- Funk, J. L., & Rogge, R. D. (2007). Testing the ruler with item response theory: Increasing precision of measurement for relationship satisfaction with the Couples Satisfaction Index. Journal of Family Psychology, 21(4), 572-583. — The CSI is made available by the authors (Rogge Lab, University of Rochester) for free use in research and clinical practice; no separate permission is required beyond citing the original source. The 0-21 score range and the cutoff (sum below 13.5 = notable dissatisfaction) come from the original study.