Department of Psychology, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY 14456, USA.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2010 Oct;99(4):690-702. doi: 10.1037/a0020385.
Three very large, nationally representative samples of married couples were used to examine the relative importance of 3 types of personality effects on relationship and life satisfaction: actor effects, partner effects, and similarity effects. Using data sets from Australia (N = 5,278), the United Kingdom (N = 6,554), and Germany (N = 11,418) provided an opportunity to test whether effects replicated across samples. Actor effects accounted for approximately 6% of the variance in relationship satisfaction and between 10% and 15% of the variance in life satisfaction. Partner effects (which were largest for Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Emotional Stability) accounted for between 1% and 3% of the variance in relationship satisfaction and between 1% and 2% of the variance in life satisfaction. Couple similarity consistently explained less than .5% of the variance in life and relationship satisfaction after controlling for actor and partner effects.
采用了三个非常大的、具有全国代表性的已婚夫妇样本，来检验三种人格效应（即演员效应、伴侣效应和相似性效应）对关系和生活满意度的相对重要性。利用来自澳大利亚（N=5278）、英国（N=6554）和德国（N=11418）的数据集，有机会检验这些效应是否在样本间具有可重复性。演员效应大约解释了关系满意度差异的 6%，以及生活满意度差异的 10%到 15%。伴侣效应（在宜人性、尽责性和情绪稳定性方面最大）解释了关系满意度差异的 1%到 3%，以及生活满意度差异的 1%到 2%。在控制了演员效应和伴侣效应之后，夫妻相似性始终只解释了生活和关系满意度差异的不到 0.5%。
