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  • Positive Psychology
  • Relationship Science
  • Psychometrics

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  • Couple satisfaction is widely studied, yet high-quality, flourishing relationships remain under-assessed.
  • Existing measures lack sensitivity at the upper end of relationship quality, limiting research on flourishing.
  • Positive psychology concepts are integrated to define and measure couple flourishing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a theoretical framework and measurement tool for couple flourishing.
  • To create a Couple Flourishing Measure (CFM) sensitive to high levels of relationship quality.
  • To differentiate couple flourishing from standard measures of relationship satisfaction.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a theoretical framework incorporating hedonic and eudemonic components of flourishing.
  • Generated items and administered them to a large online sample (N=1,116).
  • Utilized classical test theory and item response theory (IRT) for item selection and scale validation, including confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) in an independent sample (N=330).

Main Results:

  • Created 4-, 8-, and 16-item versions of the Couple Flourishing Measure (CFM).
  • IRT analyses demonstrated CFM's superior ability to discriminate at the upper range of relationship quality compared to satisfaction measures.
  • CFM showed couple flourishing is related to, yet distinct from, relationship satisfaction, confirmed in a replication sample.

Conclusions:

  • The CFM provides a novel, sensitive measure for assessing flourishing couple relationships.
  • This tool advances research by enabling the study of predictors and interventions for relationship flourishing.
  • The findings offer new insights into the nature of optimal couple relationships.