Personality and Friendship Satisfaction in Daily Life: Do Everyday Social Interactions Account for Individual Differences in Friendship Satisfaction?

Wilson, Robert E.; Harris, Kelci; Vazire, Simine

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“…We used data from the first wave of the longitudinal Personality and Interpersonal Roles Study (PAIRS; Vazire et al, 2017). Other manuscripts have used the ESM personality state variables (Beck & Jackson, 2018;Breil et al, 2018;Finnigan & Vazire, 2017;Wilson, Harris, & Vazire, 2015;Wilson, Thompson, & Vazire, 2016) and other variables from this dataset (Colman, Vineyard, & Letzring, 2016;Edwards & Holtzman, 2017;Solomon & Vazire, 2016), but this is the first manuscript that examines within-person associations between self-reported and EAR-coded behavior.…”

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Do People Know What They’re Like in the Moment?

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2019

Psychol Sci

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Knowing yourself requires knowing not just what you are like in general (trait self-knowledge), but also how your personality fluctuates from moment to moment (state self-knowledge). We examined this latter form of self-knowledge. Participants (248 people; 2,938 observations) wore the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR), an unobtrusive audio recorder, and completed experience sampling (ESM) self-reports of their personality states four times each day for one week. We estimated state self-knowledge by comparing self-reported personality states to consensual observer ratings of personality states coded from the EAR files, which formed the criterion for what participants were "actually" like in the moment. People had self-insight into their momentary extraversion, conscientiousness, and likely neuroticism, suggesting that people can accurately detect fluctuations in some aspects of their personality. However, the evidence for self-insight was weaker for agreeableness. This apparent self-ignorance may be partly responsible for interpersonal problems and for blind spots in trait self-knowledge.

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Do People Know What They’re Like in the Moment?

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2019

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“…There is some evidence that conscientiousness is associated with better friendship quality and less conflict (Berry et al, 2000;Demir & Weitekamp, 2007;Jensen-Campbell & Malcolm, 2007;Wilson et al, 2015), and predicts feeling more positively about one's friendships (Mund & Neyer, 2014). In one study, high conscientiousness at age 12 predicted higher self-reported friendship quality in young adulthood (Lansford, Yu, Pettit, Bates, & Dodge, 2014).…”

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“…familiar with: the role of personality traits for friendship development (e.g., Wilson, Harris, & Vazire, 2015). Using this topic as an illustration, we show that many of the same questions that have been examined in the context of romantic relationships can also be examined in the context of friendships.…”

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On friendship development and the Big Five personality traits

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Social & Personality Psych

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In this paper, we argue that friendship should receive more attention in social/personality research. Here, we focus on our area of expertise, personality traits, and review the literature on how personality traits influence friendship formation, maintenance, and dissolution. Specifically, we examine how personality traits of the actor and partner influence friendship development (i.e., who is more likely to initiate and end friendships, and who is more likely to be the target of friendship initiation and termination). We also discuss dyadic effects, such as personality similarity, on friendship development. Throughout this review, we draw on the literature on personality and romantic relationships to identify the most important gaps in the literature on personality and friendships. Our review suggests that agreeableness has the most consistent effects on both romantic relationships and friendships, followed by neuroticism. Extraversion, conscientiousness, and openness to experience have all been shown to influence relationship development, but their effects are inconsistent. We end with a call for more research on friendship beyond the role of personality traits and suggestions for specific future directions.Personality and friendship may be more common topics of study in other disciplines, but given how important friendships are for health and well-being, it is surprising that friendship has not received more attention from social and personality psychologists. A search for the term "friendship" as a keyword in journals containing either "social" or "personality" in the journal title produces 1,189 hits. In contrast, the same search on the word "relationship" in the abstract produces 9,682 hits Tables 1 and 2. Social/personality researchers have the tools necessary to provide important insights about the causes and consequences of friendship in people's lives. The goal of this article is to stimulate more research on friendship across a broad range of topics in social/personality psychology. We do this by reviewing one topic that we are especially

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“…Research on higher-order personality traits (Costa & McCrae, 1992) points to three factors along the affiliation dimension in the interpersonal circumplex (Wiggins, 1979) of highest relevance for social relating competence: Agreeableness, extraversion and neuroticism explain substantial variance in the feelings and perceptions of social interactions (Barrett & Pietromonaco, 1997;Côté & Moskowitz, 1998;Cuperman & Ickes, 2009;Wilson, Harris, & Vazire, 2015). The overall usefulness of the Big Five as predictors of mimicry was also underlined by the findings of Kurzius and Borkenau (2015), but as these authors did not assess emotional mimicry per se, no specific assumptions can be deduced.…”

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Individual Differences in Emotional Mimicry: Underlying Traits and Social Consequences

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Mimicry, the imitation of the nonverbal behaviour of others, serves to establish affiliation and to smoothen social interactions. The present research aimed to disentangle rapid facial reactions (RFRs) to affiliative emotions from RFRs to nonaffiliative emotions from a trait perspective. In line with the Mimicry in Social Context Model by Hess and Fischer, we expected that only the former are mimicry responses indicative of underlying social relating competence and predictive of social satisfaction, whereas the latter superficially resemble mimicry responses and are driven by social relating incompetence and have opposite effects on social satisfaction. Further, we assumed that social relating competence would moderate the relationship between stable individuals' tendencies to show (mal) adaptive RFRs and social satisfaction. To test these hypotheses, 108 participants first completed scales measuring social relating competence, then participated in a mimicry laboratory task and finally evaluated their naturally occurring social interactions for 10 days. Affiliative RFRs to sadness were related to proximal indices of social relating competence and predicted positive social interactions, whereas nonaffiliative RFRs to disgust were related to social relating incompetence and predicted negative social interactions. By contrast, neither affiliative RFRs to happiness nor nonaffiliative RFRs to anger were linked to proximal indices of social relating competence, and both RFRs were only (dys)functional for interaction quality in less social relating-competent individuals.

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Personality and Friendship Satisfaction in Daily Life: Do Everyday Social Interactions Account for Individual Differences in Friendship Satisfaction?

Cited by 127 publications

References 69 publications

Do People Know What They’re Like in the Moment?

Do People Know What They’re Like in the Moment?

On friendship development and the Big Five personality traits

Individual Differences in Emotional Mimicry: Underlying Traits and Social Consequences

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