Effects of global and contextualized personality on relationship satisfaction

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 624-633

  Slatcher, Richard B ^a   Vazire, Simine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Couples; Dyads; Personality traits; Relationship satisfaction; Roles; Romantic relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349239647     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2009.02.012     Document Type: Article

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