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Psychological adjustment, close relationships and personality: A comment on McLennan & Omodei
Author(s) -
Cramer Duncan
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
british journal of medical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.102
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 2044-8341
pISSN - 0007-1129
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1990.tb01628.x
Subject(s) - neuroticism , psychology , extraversion and introversion , personality , association (psychology) , social psychology , big five personality traits , clinical psychology , psychotherapist
McLennan & Omodei (1988) suggested that Cramer's (1985) finding of an association between psychological adjustment and the facilitativeness of a close relationship is primarily due to a general affective outlook in females. Their main measures of this outlook were extraversion and neuroticism, the latter of which is itself closely related to psychological adjustment. When their data were reanalysed excluding neuroticism, facilitativeness was found to be substantially correlated with psychological wellbeing in both men and women, indicating that this association cannot be wholly explained in terms of a global evaluative orientation. A reanalysis of similar data from Henderson, Byrne & Duncan‐Jones (1981) showed that psychiatric illness was still associated with the perceived adequacy of close attachments when extraversion was controlled.