Assortative Mating and Marital Quality in Newlyweds: A Couple-Centered Approach.

Luo, Shanhong; Klohnen, Eva C.

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.88.2.304

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“…This was measured through their views on time spent online and through their evaluation of specific activities which might be considered problematic as regards emotional or sexual infidelity and addiction. Research about offline attitudes, values and problematic behavior has shown that married partners tend to be more similar to each other than to other people (Feng & Baker, 1994;Grant et al, 2007;Low, Cui, & Merikangas, 2007;Luo & Klohnen, 2005;Mare & Schwartz, 2006;Murray et al, 2002;Sakai et al, 2004;White & Hatcher, 1984). This paper investigated whether the same principle is valid for online behavior.…”

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Netiquette within married couples: Agreement about acceptable online behavior and surveillance between partners

Helsper

Whitty

2010

Computers in Human Behavior

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Netiquette within married couples: Agreement about acceptable online behavior and surveillance between partners

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2010

Computers in Human Behavior

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“…For example, neuroticism similarity was positive for female relationship quality and conscientiousness similarity was positive for male relationship quality (Luo & Klohnen, 2005). Finally, Gattis, Berns, Simpson, and Christensen (2004) studied distressed and nondistressed couples using difference score similarities.…”

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“…Further, Luo and Klohnen (2005) tested the effect of profile similarity and difference scores on Big Five traits on observed and self-reported marital quality of both partners. The results suggest effects for agreeableness and openness for both partners' relationship quality, reflecting that if both partners were more similarly agreeable and open, self-reported and observed relationship quality was higher.…”

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

Weidmann¹,

Schönbrodt²,

Ledermann³

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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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“…To calculate relative similarity (for level and 298 consistency, respectively), we first computed difference-score based similarity between the 299 female and each of the two males (bold and shy) as the absolute value of the difference in 300 the respective behaviour (e.g. Gaunt, 2006;Luo et al, 2005;Montiglio et al, 2016) between 301 the female and the bold male, and the female and the shy male. Thus, similarity (in level and 302 consistency, respectively) is highest at zero and dis-similarity increases with increasing 303 values.…”

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Different or alike? Female rainbow kribs choose males of similar consistency and dissimilar level of boldness

Scherer¹,

Kuhnhardt²,

Schuett³

2017

Animal Behaviour

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to different conditions. However, sheer costs of flexibility cannot explain the polymorphism 22 created by personality variation. In a correlative approach, we here tested whether mate 23 choice might act as a major driving force maintaining personality variation in the 24 monogamous, biparental rainbow krib, Pelvicachromis pulcher. We personality-typed all 25 males and females for their boldness (activity under simulated predation risk) and allowed 26 females to choose between two males that differed in their boldness (behavioural level and 27 consistency). Prior to the choice, females were allowed to observe both males, expressing 28 their natural boldness towards a video animated natural predator. Both sexes showed 29 personality differences in boldness over the short-and long-term. Furthermore, when 30 removing side-biased females, we found a dis-assortative mating preference for the 31 behavioural level and an assortative preference for behavioural consistency in boldness. 32Such preference patterns might facilitate effective parental role allocation during offspring 33 care and/or provide genetic benefits. Our results suggest that sexual selection plays an 34 important role in the evolution of personality differences. 35 36 Keywords: anti-predator behaviour, assortative, behavioural compatibility, cichlid, mate 37 choice, Pelvicachromis pulcher, personality, risk-taking, sexual selection, side bias 38 39 3 Individuals have to cope with a wide array of environmental challenges. Therefore, 40 flexibility in the expression of behavioural responses towards different and changing 41 conditions should be favoured by selection ). Yet, individuals often show 42 considerable consistent between-individual differences in behaviour over time and/or 43 contexts (Boissy, 1995). Such personality differences are common throughout the animal 44 kingdom (reviewed in Gosling, 2001; Kralj-Fišer et al., 2014) and have been shown for 45 various behavioural traits, such as activity pattern, aggressiveness, exploratory tendencies, 46 boldness and fearfulness (reviewed in Dall et al., 2004; Gosling, 2001;. 47Personality traits are moderately heritable (Ariyomo, Carter, et al., 2013; Patrick et al., 48 2013;Reif et al., 2003;van Oers et al., 2005) and have fitness consequences (e.g. Ariyomo et 49 al., 2012; Dingemanse et al., 2005;Smith et al., 2008), suggesting they are not merely non-50 adaptive noise that surrounds an adaptive optimum (Wilson, 1998). Nevertheless, 51 underlying mechanisms that generate and maintain behavioural polymorphism are largely 52 unclear and many aspects of the growing body of theoretical frameworks still remain to be 53 empirically tested (reviewed in e.g. Schuett et al., 2010;Wolf et al., 2010). 54 55 Recently, Schuett et al. (2010) pointed out that sexual selection may be important in 56 generating and maintaining personality variation though this possibility has rarely been 57 tested (but see e.g. Montiglio et al., 2016;. According to the proposed 58 framework , personalities are expected to p...

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Assortative Mating and Marital Quality in Newlyweds: A Couple-Centered Approach.

Cited by 478 publications

References 52 publications

Netiquette within married couples: Agreement about acceptable online behavior and surveillance between partners

Netiquette within married couples: Agreement about acceptable online behavior and surveillance between partners

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

Different or alike? Female rainbow kribs choose males of similar consistency and dissimilar level of boldness

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