Trait and facet personality similarity and relationship and life satisfaction in romantic couples

Rebekka Weidmann; Mariah F. Purol; Alisar Alabdullah; Sophia M. Ryan; Ethan G. Wright; Jeewon Oh; William J. Chopik

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104378

Trait and facet personality similarity and relationship and life satisfaction in romantic couples

Rebekka Weidmann, Mariah F. Purol, Alisar Alabdullah, Sophia M. Ryan, Ethan G. Wright, Jeewon Oh, William J. Chopik

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Previous research has shown that personality similarity plays a negligible role in explaining the life and relationship satisfaction of couples. However, similarity in more proximally measured personality (i.e., facets) might explain additional variance in partners’ well-being. The current study examined if in a sample of 1294 female-male romantic couples individual and partner personality traits and facets were associated with life and relationship satisfaction in expected ways. Similarity in personality traits and facets was not robustly associated with either life or relationship satisfaction of partners. The results are discussed in the context of the predictive validity of personality facets.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	104378
Journal	Journal of Research in Personality
Volume	104
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104378
State	Published - Jun 2023

Keywords

Actor-partner interdependence models
Big Five personality
Dyadic polynomial regression analysis
Personality facets
Personality similarity
Response surface analysis

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Social Psychology
General Psychology

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