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

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

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104378

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“…Therefore, DRSA is well-suited to assess whether similarity between couples is associated with relationship outcomes and has been used to do so in other studies (J. J. Kim et al, 2021; Weidmann et al, 2023). We conducted separate DRSA models predicting each of the characteristics from own and partner political ideology to determine whether individuals in politically dissimilar relationships were higher or lower on any of these characteristics.…”

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I love you but I hate your politics: The role of political dissimilarity in romantic relationships.

Gordon,

Luciani,

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2024

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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I love you but I hate your politics: The role of political dissimilarity in romantic relationships.

Gordon,

Luciani,

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2024

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…1a) may have underestimated potential fit effects in the presence of main effects of the person and (or) environment (Humberg et al, 2019). For example, Weidmann et al (2023) found significant congruence effects of spouses' open-mindedness on relationship satisfaction when modeled with the positive main effects of each spouse's open-mindedness score (see Fig. 1b).…”

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“…For instance, romantic partners who share certain personality characteristics have been hypothesized to be more satisfied in their relationships and stay together ("birds of a feather flock together"). Some studies indeed reported that partners who were more congruent in certain traits were less likely to separate (e.g., Rammstedt et al, 2013), whereas evidence for congruence effects on relationship satisfaction has been more mixed (van Scheppingen et al, 2019;Weidmann et al, 2023). Notably, studies that focused on strict congruence effects (i.e., only congruence predicts; shown in Fig.…”

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A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Person-Environment Fit: Relevance, Measurement, and Future Directions

Kandler,

Kühn,

Mönkediek

et al. 2024

Curr Dir Psychol Sci

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Environments shape people, and at the same time, people are attracted to environments that fit their characteristics because fit facilitates the achievement of people’s desired life outcomes, such as relationship satisfaction, work success, and well-being. In this article, we outline how persons and environments can fit, the relevance of fit and misfit for different life outcomes, and the benefits and pitfalls of different (mis)fit measures. We propose three directions for future research: (a) the use of both subjective and objective (mis)fit measures; (b) the consideration of complex dynamics between person and environment characteristics via pathways through multiple biological, experiential, behavioral, and social layers across the life span; and (c) the integration of insights from different disciplines, including psychology, sociology, neuroscience, and genetics, to move the field forward.

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“…The present studies do not examine the underlying process or why integrated and nonintegrated money motives matter to relationships. Relationship partners who are primarily motivated to earn money as a way to promote personal growth might also be more agreeable or open-minded, traits which have been linked to better relationship quality (Weidmann et al, 2023). Types of money motives might also be connected to underlying need fulfillment or lack thereof (Thibault Landry et al, 2016), which might affect desires to seek need fulfillment through suboptimal avenues.…”

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How couples think about money: Types of money motives and relationship satisfaction

Peetz,

Joseph

2024

Personal Relationships

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Two studies examined how financial values held by romantic partners were linked with relationship satisfaction. Across a sample of married individuals (N = 628), and a dyadic sample (N = 236), results suggest that holding or perceiving a romantic partner to hold integrated money motives—wanting to earn money to feel pride, establish one's worth, facilitate freedom, and enrich leisure activities—was linked with better relationship satisfaction. Holding or perceiving a romantic partner to hold nonintegrated money motives—wanting to earn money to enable impulse spending, to feel better than others, and to overcome self‐doubt—was linked with worse relationship satisfaction. In both samples, perceived similarity in money motives between the self and the partner was also linked to higher relationship satisfaction. Study 2 further showed that actual similarity between partners in nonintegrated money motives was also linked to better relationship satisfaction, suggesting that even nonintegrated money motives might benefit relationships, as long as both partners share these motives. Overall, these studies suggest that while holding similar financial values as your partner is linked with better relationships, some financial values are more conducive to relationship satisfaction than others.

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

Cited by 5 publications

References 71 publications

I love you but I hate your politics: The role of political dissimilarity in romantic relationships.

I love you but I hate your politics: The role of political dissimilarity in romantic relationships.

A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Person-Environment Fit: Relevance, Measurement, and Future Directions

How couples think about money: Types of money motives and relationship satisfaction

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