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APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020

Women’s Perceptions of Partner Agreeableness Predict Relationship Satisfaction Only When Objective Indices of Partner Agreeableness Are Low.

Virtual · June 2020

Poster Sessions · Personality/Emotion

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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