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Partner Selection for Personality Characteristics: A Couple-Centered Approach
Abstract
Both personality similarity and complementarity have been hypothesized to underlie mate selection. However, neither hypothesis has received strong and consistent empirical support. This study examined personality matching in couples by taking within-couple similarity as the basic unit of analysis. On the assumptions that individuals seek in another what they value in themselves but that they cannot always get what they want, it was hypothesized (a) that the similarity of partners' self-descriptions is positively related to self-liking, (b) that there is assortative mating for self-liking, (c) that there is significant similarity between subjects' ideal self-descriptions and their perceptions of their partners, and (d) that participants bias their perceptions of their partners in the direction of their ideal self-conceptions. The authors examined and found support for the four hypotheses by analyzing California Q-set ratings provided by both partners of couples, who described themselves, their ideal selves and their partners.
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Mindfulness is consistently associated with high self-esteem.
“Mindfulness has been consistently associated with high self-esteem and high self-concept clarity, both of which are associated with lower selfdiscrepancies (DeMarree & Rios, 2014; Klohnen & Mendelsohn, 1998) and reduced compliance on social cues (Mittal, 2015), making CC less prevalent in such individuals.”
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Mindfulness is consistently associated with high self-concept clarity.
“Mindfulness has been consistently associated with high self-esteem and high self-concept clarity, both of which are associated with lower selfdiscrepancies (DeMarree & Rios, 2014; Klohnen & Mendelsohn, 1998) and reduced compliance on social cues (Mittal, 2015), making CC less prevalent in such individuals.”
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High self-esteem and high self-concept clarity are associated with lower self-discrepancies.
“Mindfulness has been consistently associated with high self-esteem and high self-concept clarity, both of which are associated with lower selfdiscrepancies (DeMarree & Rios, 2014; Klohnen & Mendelsohn, 1998) and reduced compliance on social cues (Mittal, 2015), making CC less prevalent in such individuals.”
From Mindfulness as an antidote to conspicuous consumption: The mediating roles of self-esteem, self-concept clarity and normative influence (2022) · cites this paper as Klohnen & Mendelsohn, 1998
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Metadata
- Authors
- Klohnen, E. C., & Mendelsohn, G. A.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Corresponding author
- Klohnen, Eva C.
- Venue
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1998-03
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 268-278
- ISSN
- 0146-1672 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-7433
- OpenAlex
- W2012928230
- Cited by
- 126
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 0.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Keywords
- mate choice, personality similarity, assortative mating, self-liking, partner perceptions, couples
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