Personality and social network effects on romantic relationships: a dyadic approach

Neyer, Franz J.; Voigt, D.

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“…In adulthood, their friends report more frequent conflict and heightened irritation (Berry et al, 2000), their romantic partners report reduced relationship security (Neyer & Voigt, 2004), their spouses report reduced marital and sexual satisfaction (Dyrenforth et al, 2010; Malouff et al, 2010; Solomon & Jackson, 2014; Watson, Hubbard, & Wiese, 2000; Watson & Humrichouse, 2006), and their offspring report more frequent parent-child conflict (Hutteman, Bleidorn, Kereste, et al, 2014). Likewise, the parents of children with a more negative disposition describe their relationship with their offspring as challenging and emotionally exhausting (Shamir-Essakow, Ungerer, Rapee, & Safier, 2004).…”

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Dispositional negativity: An integrative psychological and neurobiological perspective.

Shackman¹,

Tromp²,

Stockbridge³

et al. 2016

Psychological Bulletin

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Dispositional negativity—the propensity to experience and express more frequent, intense, or enduring negative affect—is a fundamental dimension of childhood temperament and adult personality. Elevated levels of dispositional negativity can have profound consequences for health, wealth, and happiness, drawing the attention of clinicians, researchers, and policy makers. Here, we highlight recent advances in our understanding of the psychological and neurobiological processes linking stable individual differences in dispositional negativity to momentary emotional states. Self-report data suggest that three key pathways—increased stressor reactivity, tonic increases in negative affect, and increased stressor exposure—explain most of the heightened negative affect that characterizes individuals with a more negative disposition. Of these three pathways, tonically elevated, indiscriminate negative affect appears to be most central to daily life and most relevant to the development of psychopathology. New behavioral and biological data provide insights into the neural systems underlying these three pathways and motivate the hypothesis that seemingly ‘tonic’ increases in negative affect may actually reflect increased reactivity to stressors that are remote, uncertain, or diffuse. Research focused on humans, monkeys, and rodents suggests that this indiscriminate negative affect reflects trait-like variation in the activity and connectivity of several key brain regions, including the central extended amygdala and parts of the prefrontal cortex. Collectively, these observations provide an integrative psychobiological framework for understanding the dynamic cascade of processes that bind emotional traits to emotional states and, ultimately, to emotional disorders and other kinds of adverse outcomes.

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confidence: 99%

Dispositional negativity: An integrative psychological and neurobiological perspective.

Shackman¹,

Tromp²,

Stockbridge³

et al. 2016

Psychological Bulletin

207

208

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“…Based on previous findings (Jokela et al, 2009), we expected extraversion to be more important for the transition to parenthood than for later births and the opposite pattern for neuroticism. We also expected high extraversion to lead to younger age at first marriage and parenthood, because extraverts have a higher propensity of engaging in romantic relationships (Asendorpf & Wilpers, 1998; Nettle, 2005; Neyer & Voigt, 2004). As low neuroticism and high agreeableness are associated with low ambivalence toward parenthood (Pinquart et al, 2008), we hypothesized that these characteristics predict earlier timing of childbearing, a shorter time period between first marriage and parenthood, and shorter interbirth intervals.…”

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Reproductive Behavior and Personality Traits of the Five Factor Model

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We examined associations between Five Factor Model personality traits and various outcomes of reproductive behavior in a sample of 15 729 women and men from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) and Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS) survey. Personality and reproductive history was self-reported in adulthood (mean age: 53 years). High extraversion, high openness to experience, and low neuroticism were associated with larger number of children in both sexes, while high agreeableness and low conscientiousness correlated with larger offspring number in women only. These associations were independent of marital status. There were also more specific associations between personality and timing of childbearing. The findings demonstrate that personality traits of the Five Factor Model are systematically associated with multiple reproductive outcomes.

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“…Third, because most childlessness research is still limited to women (Koropeckyi-Cox & Call, 2007), we wanted to consider the views of both women and men by including only couples in which the two partners participated in the study. Finally, theoretical accounts (e.g., Bronfenbrenner, 1979) and previous empirical research (e.g., Neyer & Voigt, 2004) have illustrated that the transactions between social networks and individual characteristics as well as dyadic partner relationships are anything but trivial. Therefore, the consideration of individual and dyadic characteristics seems essential in testing the unique contribution of social network characteristics.…”

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Social Network Characteristics of Early Midlife Voluntarily and Involuntarily Childless Couples

Wagner

Wrzus

Neyer

et al. 2013

Journal of Family Issues

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Whether couples have children or remain childless has largely been associated with individual and couple characteristics. We propose that the broader social network additionally differentiates between parents and childless couples, particularly between involuntarily and voluntarily childless couples. In light of this, we studied social network differences and their interplay with dyadic and individual characteristics in three types of couples with and without children, in a sample of 248 German early-midlife adults (n = 41 voluntarily childless, n = 35 involuntarily childless, n = 48 traditional parental dyads). A multinomial logistic regression analysis revealed that social network characteristics distinguished between voluntarily and involuntarily childless individuals. Additionally, attitudes toward children differed substantially across types of couples, whereas levels of partnership distress did not. Findings provide new insights into the significance of the social network above and beyond dyadic and individual characteristics in early-midlife couples with and without children.

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Personality and social network effects on romantic relationships: a dyadic approach

Cited by 67 publications

References 41 publications

Dispositional negativity: An integrative psychological and neurobiological perspective.

Dispositional negativity: An integrative psychological and neurobiological perspective.

Reproductive Behavior and Personality Traits of the Five Factor Model

Social Network Characteristics of Early Midlife Voluntarily and Involuntarily Childless Couples

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