Studiet analyserer assortativ parring blandt nygifte og finder, at de har stærk lighed i alder, religiøsitet og politisk orientering, moderat lighed i uddannelse og verbal intelligens, men kun lille lighed i personlighed og følelsesmæssig erfaring. Lighederne skyldes ikke baggrundsvariable, men reflekterer initial assortering ved ægteskab. Ægteskabelig tilfredshed afhænger primært af den enkelte persons egenskaber og har lille relation til lighed med partneren.
Titel på undersøgelse:
Match Makers and Deal Breakers: Analyses of Assortative Mating in Newlywed Couples.
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Hele abstrakt på originalsprog:
We conducted a comprehensive analysis of assortative mating (i.e., the similarity between wives and husbands on a given characteristic) in a newlywed sample. These newlyweds showed (a) strong similarity in age, religiousness, and political orientation; (b) moderate similarity in education and verbal intelligence; (c) modest similarity in values; and (d) little similarity in matrix reasoning, self- and spouse-rated personality, emotional experience and expression, and attachment. Further analyses established that similarity was not simply due to background variables such as age and education and reflected initial assortment (i.e., similarity at the time of marriage) rather than convergence (i.e., increasing similarity with time). Finally, marital satisfaction primarily was a function of the rater’s own traits and showed little relation to spousal similarity.