When will I feel love? The effects of culture, personality, and gender on the psychological tendency to love

Schmitt, David P.; Youn, Gahyun; Bond, Brooke; Brooks, Sarah; Frye, Heather; Johnson, Stefanie K.; Klesman, Jennifer; Peplinski, Caitlin; Sampias, Jessica; Sherrill, Melissa; Stoka, Christine

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2009.05.008

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“…More stable personality characteristics, such as Bowlby"s (1969) attachment style, the Five Factor Model personality traits (FFM; Digman, 1990;McCrae & John, 1992), and self-esteem, have been shown to affect social behavior and relationships. Research supports the significant association of relationship quality with attachment style (Brennan & Shaver, 1993;Saferstein, Neimeyer, & Hagans, 2005;Schmitt et al, 2009;Shaver & Brennan, 1992;Zimmerman, 2004), Five Factor model traits (Barelds, 2005;White et al, 2004;Wu, Foo, & Turban, 2008), and self-esteem (Barelds, 2005;Hendrick, Hendrick, & Adler, 1988;Luteijn, 1994). For online relationships, recent research supports the idea that FFM personality traits such as extraversion explain the nature and extent of a user"s social behavior on the internet (Tosun & Lajunen, 2010).…”

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The interrelationships among attachment style, personality traits, interpersonal competency, and Facebook use.

Jenkins‐Guarnieri¹,

Wright²,

Johnson³

2013

Psychology of Popular Media Culture

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Online social media has become a popular way to communicate and develop interpersonal relationships. Facebook use in particular has become an important topic for researchers and clinicians, as young adults are increasingly integrating this use into their daily lives and social behavior. As empirical work on the personality traits and interpersonal competency associated with use and the potential consequences of use on social behavior is still emerging, the present study sought to investigate the interrelationships among constructs relevant to the developmental tasks associated with emerging adulthood, including adult attachment style, Five Factor Model personality traits, interpersonal competency, and Facebook use. Using data collected from 617 emerging adults in college, we utilized structural equation modeling to develop a model explaining the interrelationships among the constructs under study in order to further the research in this area. Results yielded a well-fitting model that explained the interrelationships among these latent constructs in the data, which suggested that insecure attachment had direct and positive effects on neuroticism, direct and negative effects on extraversion, direct and negative effects on interpersonal competency, and indirect effects on Facebook use. In addition, only extraversion and not neuroticism was related to interpersonal competency and Facebook use, when first accounting for attachment style. Interestingly, interpersonal competency did not seem to play a prominent mediating role between these personality traits and Facebook use. These results highlight the role of attachment style, and its importance in both developing personality traits, interpersonal CHAPTER I Personality Traits and Interpersonal Competency Although Ozer and Benet-Martínez (2006) recently lamented the dearth of research investigating interrelationships among FFM traits and social competence, they also provided support in their review for the significant relationship between personality traits and social skills, which in turn affect relationship quality. They also noted that the body of literature in this area provides support for the FFM traits Extraversion and Neuroticism as the most important predictors of social relationship outcomes (e.g.,

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Section: Five Factor Model Personality Traits and Online Social Behaviormentioning

confidence: 88%

The interrelationships among attachment style, personality traits, interpersonal competency, and Facebook use.

Jenkins‐Guarnieri¹,

Wright²,

Johnson³

2013

Psychology of Popular Media Culture

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“…As anticipated, participants in individualist societies were more likely to highly rate qualities associated with emotional investment in a relationship [33]. In contrast, in collectivist societies, romance and passion may challenge family authority [1], with parents or kin instead choosing mate partners for their offspring on the basis of their economic and family background [37].…”

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Mate Value and Self-Esteem: Evidence from Eight Cultural Groups

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This paper explores self-perceived mate value (SPMV), and its association with self-esteem, in eight cultures. 1066 participants, from 8 cultural groups in 7 countries, rated themselves on 24 SPMVs and completed a measure of self-esteem. Consistent with evolutionary theory, women were more likely to emphasise their caring and passionate romantic nature. In line with previous cross-cultural research, characteristics indicating passion and romance and social attractiveness were stressed more by respondents from individualistic cultures, and those higher on self-expression (rather than survival) values; characteristics indicative of maturity and confidence were more likely to be mentioned by those from Traditional, rather than Secular, cultures. Contrary to gender role theory, societal equality had only limited interactions with sex and SPMV, with honesty of greater significance for male self-esteem in societies with unequal gender roles. These results point to the importance of cultural and environmental factors in influencing self-perceived mate qualities, and are discussed in relation to broader debates about the impact of gender role equality on sex differences in personality and mating strategies.

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“…Schmitt et al (2009) found both men and women report higher levels of emotional investment in nations with more egalitarian sex role socialization and greater sociopolitical gender equity. However, the effects on women were more profound, leading to larger sex differences in emotional investment in nations with more egalitarian sex role socialization and greater sociopolitical gender equity.…”

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The Evolution of Culturally-Variable Sex Differences: Men and Women Are Not Always Different, but When They Are…It Appears Not to Result from Patriarchy or Sex Role Socialization

When will I feel love? The effects of culture, personality, and gender on the psychological tendency to love

Cited by 40 publications

References 87 publications

The interrelationships among attachment style, personality traits, interpersonal competency, and Facebook use.

The interrelationships among attachment style, personality traits, interpersonal competency, and Facebook use.

Mate Value and Self-Esteem: Evidence from Eight Cultural Groups

The Evolution of Culturally-Variable Sex Differences: Men and Women Are Not Always Different, but When They Are…It Appears Not to Result from Patriarchy or Sex Role Socialization

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