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Similarity between partners in real and perceived personality traits as measured by the Myers‐Briggs type indicator
Author(s) -
NORDVIK HILMAR
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1996.tb00676.x
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , similarity (geometry) , big five personality traits , perception , social psychology , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , computer science , image (mathematics)
From 90 couples, 90 male and 90 female subjects, two sets of scores on the four personality dimensions measured by the Myers‐Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) were obtained by letting each person answer each item twice, first in the ordinary way and then as he or she believed the partner would answer the item. Correlations between partners' self‐reported scores were all close to zero, whereas the correlations between the partner‐reported scores and the self‐reported scores were high for both males and females and for all the four dimensions measured by the MBTI, thus indicating that partners were not similar in personality traits, but they had a realistic perception of each other. The results support the hypothesis that mating is random in terms of personality traits.