Dyadic longitudinal interplay between personality and relationship satisfaction: A focus on neuroticism and self-esteem

Schaffhuser, Kathrin; Wagner, Jenny; Lüdtke, Oliver; Allemand, Mathias

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2014.08.007

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“…Wagner, Voelkle, Hoppmann, Luszcz, and Gerstorf (2017) found that the male partner's self-esteem predicted the female partner's self-esteem one year later but not vice versa. Moreover, Schaffhuser, Wagner, Lüdtke, and Allemand (2014) tested for mutual influence in self-esteem but did not find evidence of significant effects.…”

Section: Self-esteemmentioning

confidence: 89%

Codevelopment of well-being and self-esteem in romantic partners: Disentangling the effects of mutual influence and shared environment.

Orth¹,

Erol²,

Ledermann³

et al. 2018

Developmental Psychology

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Common sense suggests that romantic partners tend to be interdependent in their well-being and self-esteem. The authors tested the degree to which codevelopment in romantic partners (i.e., development in similar directions) is due to mutual influence between partners or due to the effects of shared environment, using longitudinal data from 5 samples of couples (N = 4,116 participants). The samples included dating, cohabiting, and married couples, with a broad age range covering young adulthood to old age. The authors used a longitudinal version of the actor-partner interdependence model and examined measures of well-being (life satisfaction, positive affect, negative affect, and depression) and self-esteem. After conducting the study-level analyses, we meta-analytically aggregated the findings across studies. The results showed significant mutual influence between partners in life satisfaction, positive affect, negative affect, and depression, and significant effects of shared environment on life satisfaction, positive affect, negative affect, depression, and self-esteem. The findings suggest that both mutual influence and shared environment account for codevelopment of well-being in romantic partners. In contrast, only shared environment but not mutual influence contributes to the partners’ codevelopment of self-esteem. The findings have important implications because they show that the level of well-being of a person’s relationship partner has long-term influence on the person’s own well-being.

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Section: Self-esteemmentioning

confidence: 89%

Codevelopment of well-being and self-esteem in romantic partners: Disentangling the effects of mutual influence and shared environment.

Orth¹,

Erol²,

Ledermann³

et al. 2018

Developmental Psychology

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“…Similarly, in a study by Tackett, Nelson, and Busby (2013) with a large sample of dating and married couples, SELF-ESTEEM AND ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS 8 self-esteem did not have a partner effect. And finally, in a longitudinal study by Schaffhuser et al (2014), no partner effect of self-esteem on relationship satisfaction emerged.…”

Section: Self-esteem and Romantic Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Self-Esteem and the Quality of Romantic Relationships

Erol

Orth

2016

European Psychologist

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Abstract. The relation between self-esteem and romantic relationships has been the focus of many research studies. In this article, we review theoretical perspectives and available evidence on (a) the effect of people’s self-esteem on the quality of their romantic relationships, (b) the effect of self-esteem similarity between partners on relationship quality, and (c) the psychological mechanisms that might account for the link between self-esteem and relationship quality. Overall, the evidence suggests that high self-esteem is beneficial in romantic relationships. Furthermore, research using data from both partners of couples suggests that high self-esteem has a positive effect also on the partner’s happiness with the relationship. However, research indicates that the degree of self-esteem similarity between partners does not influence the couple’s relationship satisfaction. Although evidence suggests that perceived regard and secure attachment between the partners explains why self-esteem is beneficial in romantic relationships, future research is needed to examine in more detail the mechanisms through which self-esteem contributes to a happy relationship.

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“…In the same vein, longitudinal evidence indicates that personality has the power to predict future levels of relationship satisfaction (Karney & Bradbury, 1995;Schaffhuser, Wagner, Lüdtke, & Allemand, 2014;Solomon & Jackson, 2014). More specifically, neuroticism predicted lower levels of satisfaction, whereas extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness predicted higher levels of satisfaction.…”

Section: Associations Between Personality Traits and Satisfactionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Concurrent and longitudinal dyadic polynomial regression analyses of Big Five traits and relationship satisfaction: Does similarity matter?

Weidmann¹,

Schönbrodt²,

Ledermann³

et al. 2017

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Being with a well-matched partner seems essential for a happy relationship. However, past research on personality similarity in couples has reported inconsistent findings. The current study employs a dyadic polynomial regression approach to take into account linear and curvilinear associations between similarity and satisfaction. The concurrent results based on data of 237 couples suggest that beyond actor effects for neuroticism, agreeableness, and conscientiousness and partner effects for agreeableness, similarity plays a negligible role for relationship satisfaction. Longitudinally, two similarity effects emerged. First, if partners reported dissimilar neuroticism levels, male partner reported lower relationship satisfaction. Second, if both partners reported modest levels in openness, female partners reported higher relationship satisfaction. Implications for couples are discussed.

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Dyadic longitudinal interplay between personality and relationship satisfaction: A focus on neuroticism and self-esteem

Cited by 48 publications

References 60 publications

Codevelopment of well-being and self-esteem in romantic partners: Disentangling the effects of mutual influence and shared environment.

Codevelopment of well-being and self-esteem in romantic partners: Disentangling the effects of mutual influence and shared environment.

Self-Esteem and the Quality of Romantic Relationships

Concurrent and longitudinal dyadic polynomial regression analyses of Big Five traits and relationship satisfaction: Does similarity matter?

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