@article{ref1,
title="How large are actor and partner effects of personality on relationship satisfaction? The importance of controlling for shared method variance",
journal="Personality and social psychology bulletin",
year="2013",
author="Orth, Ulrich",
volume="39",
number="10",
pages="1359-1372",
abstract="Previous research suggests that the personality of a relationship partner predicts not only the individual's own satisfaction with the relationship but also the partner's satisfaction. Based on the actor-partner interdependence model, the present research tested whether actor and partner effects of personality are biased when the same method (e.g., self-report) is used for the assessment of personality and relationship satisfaction and, consequently, shared method variance is not controlled for. Data came from 186 couples, of whom both partners provided self- and partner reports on the Big Five personality traits. Depending on the research design, actor effects were larger than partner effects (when using only self-reports), smaller than partner effects (when using only partner reports), or of about the same size as partner effects (when using self- and partner reports). The findings attest to the importance of controlling for shared method variance in dyadic data analysis.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0146-1672",
doi="10.1177/0146167213492429",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167213492429"
}