Only the congruent survive - Personality similarities in couples

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 533-535

  Rammstedt, Beatrice ^a   Schupp, Jürgen ^b  

^a GESIS LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assortative mating; Big Five; Congruence; Marriage duration; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 49549101637     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.06.007     Document Type: Article

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