The role of personalities in the marital adjustment of Japanese couples

Zi Chen; Tanaka Nao; Masayo Uji; Hidetoshi Hiramura; Noriko Shikai; Shigeki Fujihara; Toshinori Kltamura; Genevieve Bouchard; Zepnep Hamamcý; Norm O'Rourke

doi:10.2224/sbp.2007.35.4.561

The role of personalities in the marital adjustment of Japanese couples

Zi Chen
, Tanaka Nao
, Masayo Uji
, Hidetoshi Hiramura
, Noriko Shikai
, Shigeki Fujihara
, Toshinori Kltamura
, Genevieve Bouchard
, Zepnep Hamamcý
, Norm O'Rourke

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Abstract

The link between marital adjustment and personality was investigated in 66 Japanese married couples using Locke and Wallace's Short Marital Adjustment Test (SMAT; Locke & Wallace, 1959) and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ; Eysenck & Eysenck, 1975). Structural equation modeling suggests that the husband's neuroticism score is related to the wife's marital satisfaction as is the wife's dyadic consensus score, although to a lesser extent, while the wife's extraversion score is related to the husband's marital satisfaction. Spouses' marital satisfactions were correlated with each other. The study suggests that the personality traits of a partner can predict an individual's marital adjustment.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	561-572
Number of pages	12
Journal	Social Behavior and Personality
Volume	35
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2007.35.4.561
State	Published - 1 Aug 2007
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Extraversion
Marital adjustment
Neuroticism
Personality

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Social Psychology

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