PSY 3304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Southeastern Conference, Narcissistic Personality Inventory, Meta-Analysis
10 Jul 2016
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Formation of friendships during the first year at university. Sociometric method (peer nomination) 5 dimensions: extraversion (select more friends, conscientiousness not related to similarities in friends, agreeableness (selected as friends, neuroticism emotional stability not related in similarities, openness related to similarities. Verbal ability is also a marker people want to have a good discussion with their partner. Personality shows low correlation among couples, not the primary characteristic that couples look for when compared to other markers. We conducted a comprehensive analysis of assortative mating (i. e. , the similarity between wives and husbands on a given char- acteristic) in a newlywed sample. Fur- ther analyses established that similarity was not simply due to back- ground variables such as age and education and reflected initial assortment (i. e. , similarity at the time of marriage) rather than conver- gence (i. e. , increasing similarity with time). Finally, marital satisfaction primarily was a function of the rater"s own traits and showed little rela- tion to spousal similarity.
