Couple’s Satisfaction of Married Adults from Pakistan: A Cross-Cultural Validation of Couple Satisfaction Index-4

Abstract

The research aimed at the translation of Couple Satisfaction Index-4 for the cultural adaptation and use in context of Pakistani married individuals. It focused on Current translation and development of psychometric properties for the four-item version. Numerous researches have been conducted to investigate the marital satisfaction of romantic partners. In this context, couple satisfaction index is the widely used instrument based on availability of its different versions containing 32, 16, and 4 items. Couple Satisfaction Index-4 was first translated in Urdu language by obtaining two versions of Urdu through help of bilingual experts. Second, subject matter experts and five couples reviewed the final Urdu version for face validity and clarification of any ambiguities. Based on the feedback, corrections were made, and final Urdu version was obtained. Back translation was obtained with bilingual experts that was verified and approved by original author. After fulfilling all these criteria Urdu version was ready for the validation. For validation, 100 couples were recruited from five provincial capitals of Pakistan. They were provided with informed consent, demographic sheet, Urdu translated instrument and Satisfaction Level subscale of Urdu translated Investment Model Scale. The obtained data was first checked for normality assumption. After obtaining acceptable values of skewness and kurtosis, confirmatory factor analysis and Pearson correlation was performed for construct validation. The findings suggested that CSI-4 Urdu translated version has sound psychometric properties for assessing couple and individual marital satisfaction among adults of Pakistan.