Does your partner's personality affect your health? Actor and partner effects of the big five personality traits
Williams, Lynn and Ashford-Smith, Sarah and Cobban, Laura and Fitzsimmons, Rebecca and Sukhatme, Vedika and Hunter, Simon (2019) Does your partner's personality affect your health? Actor and partner effects of the big five personality traits. Personality and Individual Differences, 149. pp. 231-234. ISSN 0191-8869 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.06.004)
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Abstract
The Big Five personality traits are powerful predictors of health and longevity. However, few studies have addressed partner effects of personality on health, whereby the personalities of people close to us affect our health. The current study examined the partner effects of Big Five traits on health behaviours, mood, and quality of life in romantic couples. Here, 182 romantic couples (N = 364 participants; Mage = 35.7 years) completed self-report measures of the Big Five (TIPI), health behaviours (GPHB), mood (DASS-21) and quality of life (WHOQOL-BREF). Data were analysed using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model and showed significant partner effects of conscientiousness on quality of life. No other partner effects of the Big Five were found. These findings suggest that there are specific, focussed associations between health and a romantic partner’s personality.
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Williams, Lynn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2735-9219, Ashford-Smith, Sarah, Cobban, Laura, Fitzsimmons, Rebecca, Sukhatme, Vedika and Hunter, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3922-1252;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 68299 Dates: DateEvent15 October 2019Published15 June 2019Published Online4 June 2019Accepted26 March 2019SubmittedNotes: © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Lynn Williams, Sarah Ashford-Smith, Laura Cobban, Rebecca Fitzsimmons, Vedika Sukhatme, Simon C. Hunter, Does your partner's personality affect your health? Actor and partner effects of the Big Five personality traits, Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 149, 2019, Pages 231-234, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.06.004 Subjects: Philosophy. Psychology. Religion Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Psychological Sciences and Health > Psychology Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 07 Jun 2019 09:23 Last modified: 30 Nov 2024 14:11 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/68299