APS
APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020
Women’s Perceptions of Partner Agreeableness Predict Relationship Satisfaction Only When Objective Indices of Partner Agreeableness Are Low.
- Taffy Chan
University of Western Ontario - Pan Liu
University of Western Ontario - Andrew Daoust
University of Western Ontario - Ola Mohamed Ali
University of Western Ontario - Yuliya Kotelnikova
University of New Orleans - Elizabeth Hayden
Western University
Abstract
A multi-method approach examined the relationship between agreeableness and relationship satisfaction in 49 couples. Women’s perceptions of partner agreeableness predicted how satisfied they were in the relationship, but only when partners were low in objectively rated agreeableness. Perceptions of agreeableness are important determinants of relationship satisfaction when discrepant from reality.
Personality
