Self-other agreement in personality and affectivity: The role of acquaintanceship, trait visibility, and assumed similarity.

Watson, David; Hubbard, Brock; Wiese, David

doi:10.1037//0022-3514.78.3.546

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“…The current study has examined the way that DC-G operates between trait affectivity and relationship satisfaction in Pakistani couples. Previously, positive affectivity has been reported to positively predict relationship satisfaction in couples (Parise et al, 2019;Watson et al, 2000), and the findings of the current study are in line with that literature. This suggests that couples with higher PA tend to cope better with dyadic stress and strive for enhanced relationship satisfaction.…”

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“…Affectivity is a stable and enduring pattern of behaviors showing positive affect (PA), characterized by active, alert, attentive, determined, enthusiastic, excited, inspired, interested, proud, and strong attributes, and negative affect (NA), characterized by afraid, ashamed, distressed, guilty, hostile, irritable, jittery, nervous, scared, upset attributes, as opposed to the dimensions of a mood state (Watson et al, 2000 ; Watson & Tellegen, 1985 ; Zevon & Tellegen, 1982 ). Researchers who study relationships have reported a strong positive association between PA and relationship satisfaction, suggesting that positive traits provide a framework for the development and maintenance of stable and lasting relationships between couples (Ostovar et al, 2020 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Researchers have demonstrated a significant positive association between PA and relationship satisfaction. Positive affectivity positively predicted relationship functioning (Gordon & Baucom, 2009 ; Watson et al, 2000 ). Owing to the strong positive association between positive affectivity and relationship satisfaction, PA was used as a control variable in a study that investigated the relationship between self‐concept clarity and relationship satisfaction in married couples, and the findings demonstrated that positive affectivity adds to the benefits of self‐concept clarity and increased relationship satisfaction for the dyads (Parise et al, 2019 ).…”

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Affectivity and satisfaction in the relationship of Pakistani couples is mediated by dyadic coping‐based gratitude

Shujja,

Adil

2023

PsyCh Journal

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A substantial body of research supports a positive association between interpersonal gratitude and relationship satisfaction in couples; however, dyadic coping‐based gratitude (DC‐G) has not been investigated from a dyadic stress and coping perspective. The current study aimed to investigate the mediating role of DC‐G between trait affectivity and relationship satisfaction in couples. We collected data from both members of dyads (N = 300 married couples) for the study variables as a pre‐requisite for conducting dyadic data analysis using an actor–partner interdependent mediation model (APIMeM). The findings suggest that husbands' positive affect significantly predicted wives' relationship satisfaction via DC‐G (actor–partner effect). However, the mediating effect of DC‐G appeared to be stronger for the actor–actor and partner–partner effects compared with the cross‐partner effect, which supports the actor‐only effect. Further, wives' DC‐G mediated between husbands' negative affect and wives' relationship satisfaction, suggesting a mediating effect of DC‐G for wives but not for husbands. The implications are discussed within the context of couples' relationships.

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Affectivity and satisfaction in the relationship of Pakistani couples is mediated by dyadic coping‐based gratitude

Shujja,

Adil

2023

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“…De Vries et al, 2008;Watson et al, 2000), people might infer each other's pathogen, sexual, or moral disgust sensitivity from their personality, rather than directly observing disgust sensitivity.…”

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“…A few studies have used the method to assess affective traits. For example, one study assessed self-other agreement in both the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS; Watson & Clark, 1999) and the NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI; Costa & McCrae, 1992) and found that self-other agreement was lower for affective traits -such as fear, sadness, or general positive affect -than it was for personality traits (Watson et al, 2000). As such, pathogen, sexual, and moral disgust sensitivity might also show weaker self-other agreement than personality traits.…”

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The social, political, and aesthetic implications of disgust

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This dissertation contributes to the understanding of social, political, and aesthetic implications of disgust. It examines self-other agreement in pathogen, sexual, and moral disgust sensitivity and their independence from broader personality; disentangles two prominent explanations for why pathogen disgust sensitivity relates to anti-immigrant sentiments; explores whether and how disgust sensitivity and other individual differences relate to liking of grotesque art; and examines the heritability of – and genetic associations between – sexual disgust sensitivity, sociosexuality, and condemnation of recreational drug use. The results show that pathogen, sexual, and moral disgust sensitivity are affective traits independent from broader personality and detectable by others at different levels of acquaintanceship; that the relation between pathogen disgust sensitivity and anti-immigrant sentiments is explained by resistance to foreign norms rather than avoidance of novel pathogens; that pathogen disgust sensitivity negatively relates to liking of grotesque art; and that heritability in sexual disgust sensitivity and sociosexuality underlie the condemnation of recreational drug use. These findings illustrate the downstream consequences of the evolutionary pressure of pathogens on diverse social, political, and aesthetic aspects of modern human life.

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Predicting Romantic Interest at Zero Acquaintance: Evidence of Sex Differences in Trait Perception but Not in Predictors of Interest

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We evaluated five competing hypotheses about what predicts romantic interest. Through a half-block quasi-experimental design, a large sample of young adults (i.e., responders; n = 335) viewed videos of opposite-sex persons (i.e., targets) talking about themselves and responders rated the targets’ traits and their romantic interest in the target. We tested whether similarity, dissimilarity, or overall trait levels on mate value, physical attractiveness, life history strategy, and the Big-Five personality factors predicted romantic interest at zero acquaintance, and whether sex acted as a moderator. We tested the responders’ individual perception of the targets’ traits, in addition to the targets’ own self-reported trait levels and a consensus rating of the targets made by the responders. We used polynomial regression with response surface analysis within multilevel modeling to test support for each of the hypotheses. Results suggest a large sex difference in trait perception; when women rated men, they agreed in their perception more often than when men rated women. However, as a predictor of romantic interest, there were no sex differences. Only the responders’ perception of the targets’ physical attractiveness predicted romantic interest; specifically, responders’ who rated the targets’ physical attractiveness as higher than themselves reported more romantic interest.

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Self-other agreement in personality and affectivity: The role of acquaintanceship, trait visibility, and assumed similarity.

Cited by 88 publications

References 41 publications

Affectivity and satisfaction in the relationship of Pakistani couples is mediated by dyadic coping‐based gratitude

Affectivity and satisfaction in the relationship of Pakistani couples is mediated by dyadic coping‐based gratitude

The social, political, and aesthetic implications of disgust

Predicting Romantic Interest at Zero Acquaintance: Evidence of Sex Differences in Trait Perception but Not in Predictors of Interest

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