Ali Mohammadzade Ebrahimi; Farhad Jomehri (Ph.D.); Ahmad Borjali (Ph.D.)
Volume 3, Issue 9 , October 2007, , Pages 168-188
Abstract
This study investigated the relationship between Big Five Personality Factors of Neuroticism, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Openness to Experience and Conscientiousness With the degree of Marital Satisfaction. The sample included all the married students of public universities’, of Tehran ...
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This study investigated the relationship between Big Five Personality Factors of Neuroticism, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Openness to Experience and Conscientiousness With the degree of Marital Satisfaction. The sample included all the married students of public universities’, of Tehran living in the dormitory, is composed of 174 married students (87 couples) selected by cluster sampling and randomization. ENRICH and NEO-FF-I questionnaires were used to data gathering. Results showed a significant but negative relationship between neuroticism with marital satisfaction and significant and positive relationship between extraversion, agreeableness and conscientiousness with marital satisfaction. there was no significant relationship between openness with marital satisfaction. Furthermore results of multivariate regression analysis showed that neuroticism and agreeableness have the most relationship with marital satisfaction. Thus they have power of prediction at a level significant statistically.
batul ahadi; hosein eskandari
Abstract
The present investigation tested the relationship between the Big Five dimensions ofpersonality and the marital satisfactions of 400 mothers of primary school students in Tehran city. All participants were asked IV complete the ENRICH and the NEO• FFI. Analysis of the data involved descriptive statistics ...
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The present investigation tested the relationship between the Big Five dimensions ofpersonality and the marital satisfactions of 400 mothers of primary school students in Tehran city. All participants were asked IV complete the ENRICH and the NEO• FFI. Analysis of the data involved descriptive statistics and also inferential statistics including Pearson's correlation coefficients and regression analysis. Results showed that Neuroticism were negatively correlated with marital satisfaction, while agreeableness and conscientiousness were positively correlated with marital satisfaction. The results suggested the women's marital satisfaction could be explained by three dimensions of Big Five factor model ofpersona/it: Neuroticism, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness. Neuroticism decreases levels of marital.l satisfaction while Agreeableness and conscientiousness increase levels of marital satisfaction. These findings suggest that Agreeableness and conscientiousness deserve increased attention as significant correlates ofmarital satisfaction
