Personality change among newlyweds: Patterns, predictors, and associations with marital satisfaction over time.

ABSTRACT: The early years of marriage are a time of significant personal and relational changes as partners adjust to their new roles, but the specific ways that spouses' personalities may change in early marriage and how these changes are associated with spouses' marital satisfaction trajectories have been overlooked. Using 3 waves of data collected over the first 18 months of marriage (N = 338 spouses, or 169 heterosexual newlywed marriages), we examined changes in spouses' self-reported Big 5 personality traits over time and the association between initial levels and changes in personality and spouses' concurrent marital satisfaction trajectories. Results indicated significant changes in personality over time, including declines in agreeableness for husbands and for wives, declines in extraversio

SUBMITTER: Lavner JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5962362 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature