Relationship Satisfaction Predicts Life Satisfaction Independent of Questionnaire Order: A Preregistered Test of the Focusing Illusion

= 478) to test whether questionnaire order moderates the association between relationship satisfaction and life satisfaction. Participants completed the Satisfaction With Life Scale and the Couple Satisfaction Index in counterbalanced order. Relationship satisfaction was a strong positive predictor of life satisfaction; however, this association did not vary by questionnaire order, and no gender moderation emerged. Bayesian model comparison favored a model including relationship satisfaction without interaction terms. These findings suggest that the association between romantic relationship satisfaction and life satisfaction did not depend on questionnaire order in the present study.