Husbands and wives of 67 couples described themselves on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, described their spouses on an altered form of this test, and completed the Locke-Wallace Short Marital Adjustment Test. Results for each man were matched to a woman's results based on socio-cultrual similarity to create a comparison group of nonmarried couples. A chi-square test indicated that related spouses of the married group did not have more similar personalities than unrelated partners in the comparison group. An F-test suggested that actually, interspousal personality similarity affects marital adjustment for both sexes, but it is not affected by perceived similarity. Accuracy of perception on the introversion-extraversion scale had a positive effect on the marital adjustment of wives, but not of husbands.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc504549 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Bissett, David Woody |
| Contributors | Haynes, Jack Read, Johnson, Ray W., Critelli, Joseph W. |
| Publisher | North Texas State University |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | iv, 40 leaves, Text |
| Rights | Public, Bissett, David Woody, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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