Participants first identified “four areas in your life that are central to
your identity or activities that bring you pleasure or satisfaction.” Then
they rated their anticipated growth in each of the areas in the next ten
years on a 7-point scale: 1 (regress substantially), 2 (regress a little), 3
(satisfied at present level), 4 (hope to improve but no plans), 5 (plan to
make progress), 6 (committed to major progress), and 7 (aim to be the
best possible). They then repeated this procedure for their spouse. We
computed an average of the four ratings as the CANI score.