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Social Structure and Personality Assortment Among Married Couples

Year: 2006

Type: article

Abstract: We study the influence of social structure on assortative mating for personality in a large national sample (n=3616) of married and cohabitating couples in the Netherlands. We find that couples with higher levels of education and from dissimilar religious origins are more similar with regard to prosocial personality characteristics. Because levels of education and religious heterogamy have increased, assortative mating for prosocial personality increases.

Source: University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology)

Authors: R.H.F.P. Bekkers, Marcel A. G. van Aken, Jaap J. A. Denissen

Language: English

Topic: Family Dynamics and Relationships

Subfield: Demography

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1548666298

FWCI: 0.755

Cites: 29

Cited by: 2

Related to: 10