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Marital Adjustment and Interspousal Personality Relationships

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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc504549
Date08 1900
CreatorsBissett, David Woody
ContributorsHaynes, Jack Read, Johnson, Ray W., Critelli, Joseph W.
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formativ, 40 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Bissett, David Woody, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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