Partnership longevity and personality congruence in couples

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 832-835

  Rammstedt, Beatrice ^a   Spinath, Frank M ^b   Richter, David ^c   Schupp, Jürgen ^c  

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

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assortative mating; Big Five; Congruence; Partnership; Personality; Personality change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873710143     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.12.007     Document Type: Article

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