Is Partner And Spousal Selection?

When it comes to relationships the end goal for you and your significant other is to get married. The goal of marriage is a very elusive, it is almost like the top of Mount Everest and you need that special someone to complete the journey. Finding that significant other no easy task, so my WRC 1013 class took on the challenge of finding out what traits each gender looks for in their perfect mate. After we made a list of the most important traits we put them to the test, and everyone in our class surveyed five people and collected our results to see what traits people on campus think are important. Once we came to a conclusion on traits are important, we read about Ted Huston’s study on marriage. Combined with the research my class did and the

Pratz’s first main point is that marriages can be predicted to either succeed or end in divorce within the early stages of courtship or initial years of marriage. She offers that the early stages of distress are what determine a couple’s fate. Pratz includes Ted Huston, a professor of human ecology and psychology at the University of Texas, and his Process of Adaptation in Intimate Relationships Project as her main source throughout the article. Pratz states, “through multiple

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Kerchoff and Davis used their model to do a study on students who had been together for more than or less than 18 months. They were asked to complete questionnaires over 7 months on attitudes and personality of their partners compared to theirs; it was found that this was important in relationships up

The Big Five Personality Traits are well known when it comes to psychology or counseling topics. The Big Five Theory is described in Hamilton’s Human relations: The art and science of building effective relationships (2007), and implies that personality can be summed into five major dimensions. These dimensions are: Introversion vs. Extroversion, Neuroticism vs. Emotional Stability, Low Openness vs. High Openness to Exposure, Low Conscientiousness vs. High Conscientiousness, and Low Agreeableness vs. High Agreeableness. It seems obvious that some traits seem more desirable than others. However, this does not mean that marriages cannot survive and be successful if one partner has less desirable traits. People are imperfect and everyone has topics they don’t handle in the most logical way. According to Gottman and Silver (1999), Tom Bradbury of UCLA discusses how these traits can lead us to have certain triggers. These triggers do not have to interfere with marriages as long as we acknowledge and work on them. If one partner is neurotic it does not mean that the relationship is bound to struggle or end in termination. Instead, both partners should acknowledge the partner’s less than desirable personality trait and work on not triggering it. Both partners are going to have less than desirable traits that arise at some point the

The method that in Figure 14-2 is pretty similar how picking potential partners, That I look to people who around me and who are single, to attractiveness, to their view and personality. For the couples I have seen through the generation of my family it seem like all have a major things common in cultures, views, or in my parents case special circumstance. For my parents the special circumstances was the fact both of my parents were deaf. Therefore, the abilty to communicate was the most important to my parents. Also, in my grandparents relaltionships on my dad side because for most of their lives they only spoke Spanish because they were immigrants from Puerto Rico.  For other relationships age, race, education and

The hypotheses for this study is that there will be significant positive correlations between self-ratings and mate ratings for positive traits and that there is a significant difference between self and mate ratings: positive traits will have mate ratings that are higher than self, and neuroticism will have mate ratings that are lower than self. The M and SD for Self Openness was (M = 3.7, SD = .81) for Self Conscientiousness it was (M = 3.6, SD = .67), Self Extraversion (M = 3.4, SD = .96,) Self Agreeableness (M = 4.0, SD = .66), Self Neuroticism (M = 2.7, SD = .84), Mate Openness (M = 3.9, SD = .62), Mate Conscientiousness (M = 4.0, SD = .64), Mate Extraversion (M = 3.6, SD = .62), Mate Agreeableness (M = 4.4, SD = .59), and Mate Neuroticism (M = 1.9, SD = .72) (see Table 1). Some essential observations based on these statistics are that there was no

The present study is a field research project on how spousal selection impacts an individual’s life-long journey. Three married subjects were examined (1 female, 2 men). The average term of the marriage was 28 years long. The study was conducted in a face to face interview. The results showed that marriage and the selection of one’s partner are imperative to one’s overall happiness. This was consistent with the predictions that spouses are impactful to one 's life.

We must bear in mind that generally, in long-term relationships, the interests of women and of men are totally different. In long-term relationships, men would prefer women who are younger and physically attractive as sign of reproductive worth, and who are sexually likely to be loyal and committed as measures of fatherliness assurance. On the other hand, in long-term relationships, women put in great esteem a man who has big aspirations, ability to earn money, and professional titles. Furthermore, women do not like to be poor prospects or who lack of formal education, (Buss & Schmitt, 1993). However, the decision if whether a couple would remain together depends greatly on each other’s level of commitment: relationship satisfaction, relationship, and comparison level of alternatives, (Aronson, Wilson, & Akert,

In this study, we explored the relationship of self and mate personalities and adapted a shorter version of the BFI (Big Five Inventory) as a tool to facilitate our experiment. We predicted two things: One was that there will be a significant positive correlation between self and mate ratings is all of the Big Five traits (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism) except for Neuroticism, and the second one was that mate ratings will be higher than self rating in ALL traits, but Neuroticism will have self ratings higher than mate rating. Previous research by Figueredo et al. have found that people want to find someone who are closely similar to themselves in terms of positive traits (Figueredo, Sefcek &

According to Robert McCrae and Paul Costa, there are five primary traits that make up the personality. These are neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness (Schultz & Schultz, 2013). Jacobs et al (2011) defines neuroticism as “the subjective and stable tendency toward different states of negative affect” (p.1). Similarly, Jeronimus, Riese, Sanderman, and Ormel, (2014) define neuroticism as the “propensity to experience stress and negative emotions…” (p.1). Undoubtedly, these mirror definitions indicate a high likelihood of negative perceptions and higher stress levels in those who hold a high standing on the trait of neuroticism.

The three variables being correlated in this study are extroversion, fear of negative evaluation, and mate-seeking behaviors. I hypothesize that people with high levels of extroversion and mate-seeking scores will be positively correlated with satisfaction with life, and people with high levels of fear of negative evaluation will be inversely correlated with satisfaction with life.

While having things in common with another is beneficial to emotional attraction, there must also be a balance of some sort. Sternberg states, “Couples are indeed happiest when they complement each other on the dimension of dominance/submission but are about the same on the dimension of warmth” (2013). It is important that two individuals have many values and interests in common, but equally important for their strengths and weaknesses to balance. A common example of this is one partner being spontaneous, while the other is rational and level-headed. Couples are best happy together when a working balance for them has been reached. Arguably the biggest factor in emotional attraction is personality. But even personality ties back into similarity versus complementarity. There could never be a dictionary definition of what makes a “good personality” because it is subjective to the individual who is evaluating the other’s personality. Couples work best when their personalities are enough alike that they share many of the same perspectives and opinions, but also different enough that they can provide balance for each other.

Personality is a large part of being human, as each person has a unique set of characteristics and traits. One person can be kind and patient and another can be rude and ill tempered. This variability is both what makes the study of personality fascinating and incredibly difficult. Although there are a myriad of different personality traits that can be used to describe a person, psychologists have narrowed it down to five overarching ideas. These are commonly referred to as the “Big Five” personality traits and they consist of, neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, openness, and conscientiousness. In particular, this study will focus on neuroticism, the trait that is characterized by high emotionality and instability, anxiety, and irritability (Soto, John, Gosling, & Potter 2011). Of the five, neuroticism is the only one with a negative connotation, which separates it from the others. Nonetheless, despite its poor reputation, neuroticism is an incredibly important trait to study as it is often linked with anxiety and depression (Soto et al., 2011). For example, one study found that participants who were clinically depressed and those who were not but scored highly on the neuroticism scale both had significantly greater negative self-perceptions (Thomson, 2016). Although currently there is only a correlation between these mental disorders and neuroticism, further experimentation could lead to more conclusive result. Recently, mental health has