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Relationship Satisfaction and Personality among Unmarried Couples during the COVID-19 Pandemic


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The current study investigated whether relationship satisfaction was related to the personality traits among unmarried couples in Tripura. Seventy-five unmarried couples aged 18 to 35 years responded to the Relationship Assessment Scale and the Big Five Inventory . Results indicated that the relationship satisfaction of the unmarried couples was associated positively with extraversion, conscientiousness, openness to experience, and agreeableness but insignificant with neuroticism dimension. Stepwise regression analysis indicated that openness to experience (17%) and conscientiousness (6%) explained 23% of the relationship satisfaction. The results provided direction in the context of the importance of cultivating pleasant sets of personality traits to maintain relationship satisfaction among unmarried couples for a healthy life, whether at home, at work or in our society

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relationship satisfaction, personality , unmarried couples, COVID-19
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Authors

Jina Jamatia
Department of Psychology, T ripura University , T ripura, India
Nutankumar S. Thingujam
Department of Psychology, T ripura University , T ripura, India

Abstract


The current study investigated whether relationship satisfaction was related to the personality traits among unmarried couples in Tripura. Seventy-five unmarried couples aged 18 to 35 years responded to the Relationship Assessment Scale and the Big Five Inventory . Results indicated that the relationship satisfaction of the unmarried couples was associated positively with extraversion, conscientiousness, openness to experience, and agreeableness but insignificant with neuroticism dimension. Stepwise regression analysis indicated that openness to experience (17%) and conscientiousness (6%) explained 23% of the relationship satisfaction. The results provided direction in the context of the importance of cultivating pleasant sets of personality traits to maintain relationship satisfaction among unmarried couples for a healthy life, whether at home, at work or in our society

Keywords


relationship satisfaction, personality , unmarried couples, COVID-19

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15614/ijpp%2F2022%2Fv13i2%2F215365