Predicting relationship quality from self-verification of broad personality traits among romantic couples

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 353-362

  Letzring, Tera D ^a   Noftle, Erik E ^b  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actor partner interdependence model; Big Five; Five Factor Model; Personality traits; Relationship quality; Relationship satisfaction; Self other agreement; Self verification

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953356762     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2010.03.008     Document Type: Article

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