The association between personality, relationship satisfaction, and psychopathology in a three-wave, longitudinal study

IF 5 1区 心理学 Q1 Psychology
Samantha Dashineau, Skye Napolitano, Susan C. South
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Abstract

Objective

The aim of this work was to better understand the role of personality as it relates to psychopathology, with satisfaction as a mediating variable.

Background

Personality is an important determinant of many life outcomes including relationship satisfaction and psychopathology. Previous work has demonstrated that broad domains of normal personality have low-to-moderate associations with various forms of psychopathology. Research has primarily focused on mechanisms that might explain how common personality traits put one at risk for common forms of psychopathology; this work builds upon existing work in examining relationship satisfaction as one possible mechanism. No study to date has examined whether relationship satisfaction mediates the connection between personality and psychopathology.

Method

We utilized multilevel modeling in a longitudinal sample of 100 newlywed couples to test the hypothesis that major domains of personality (positive temperament, negative temperament, disinhibition) have a significant effect on relationship satisfaction which, in turn, is significantly associated with internalizing and externalizing forms of psychopathology.

Results

We found no evidence for the mediating role of relationship satisfaction; however, in exploratory analyses, we did find evidence for both between-person and within-person effects of personality on psychopathology.

Conclusions

This study confirms the role of personality as an important factor in consideration of dyadic processes, though not entirely deterministic for downstream functioning. Thus, separate factors in addition to personality may be worth examining in consideration of how low relationship satisfaction may be associated with psychopathology.

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三波纵向研究中人格、人际关系满意度和精神病理学之间的关系。
目的:这项研究的目的是更好地了解人格与精神病理学之间的关系:这项研究的目的是更好地了解人格在心理病理学中的作用,并将满意度作为一个中介变量:背景:人格是包括人际关系满意度和心理病理学在内的许多生活结果的重要决定因素。以往的研究表明,正常人格的广泛领域与各种形式的精神病理学有着低度到中度的关联。研究主要集中于解释常见人格特质如何使人面临常见形式的精神病理学风险的机制;本研究在现有研究的基础上,将人际关系满意度作为一种可能的机制进行研究。迄今为止,还没有任何一项研究探讨了人际关系满意度是否会介导人格与精神病理学之间的联系:我们在 100 对新婚夫妇的纵向样本中使用了多层次模型,以检验以下假设:人格的主要领域(积极气质、消极气质、抑制)对关系满意度有显著影响,而关系满意度又与内化和外化形式的心理病理学有显著关联:我们没有发现任何证据表明人际关系满意度起到了中介作用;但是,在探索性分析中,我们确实发现了人格对精神病理学的人际效应和人内效应:本研究证实了人格在考虑伴侣关系过程中的重要作用,尽管它并不完全决定下游功能的发挥。因此,在考虑低关系满意度如何与精神病理学相关联时,人格以外的其他因素可能也值得研究。
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Journal of Personality
Journal of Personality PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-
CiteScore
9.60
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100
期刊介绍: Journal of Personality publishes scientific investigations in the field of personality. It focuses particularly on personality and behavior dynamics, personality development, and individual differences in the cognitive, affective, and interpersonal domains. The journal reflects and stimulates interest in the growth of new theoretical and methodological approaches in personality psychology.
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