Relationship between Big Five Personality Factors and Marital Satisfaction

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

Narges Razeghi ¹ , Masume Nikiju ² , Adis Kraskian Mujembari ³ , Arine Zohrabi Masihi ⁴

1 - Islamic Azad University Tafresh Branch Iran-Tafresh
2 - MA in Counseling
3 - PhD Islamic Azad University Karaj Branch
4 - Islamic Azad University Tafresh Branch

Received: 2015-06-03 Accepted : 2015-06-03 Published : 2011-03-21

Keywords: marital satisfaction, Big Five Personality Factors, Couples,

Abstract :

The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between Big Five Personality factors (extraversion, agreeableness, openness to experience, conscientiousness, and neuroticism) and marital satisfaction. The short form of NEO Inventory (Costa, & McCrae, 1992) and the Enrich Marital Satisfaction Questionnaire (Olson, 1994) were used in this study. The sample of this study consisted of 100 couples (200 individuals) all of whom have been selected from Tehran higher education centers by random sampling method. Results indicated that marital satisfaction had a positive correlation with conscientiousness and agreeableness, and a negative correlation with neuroticism. Results of the simple regression analysis showed that marital satisfaction was significantly predicted by conscientiousness (positively) and neuroticism (negatively). Results of this study suggest that neuroticism and conscientiousness factors deserve further attention for martial satisfaction.