Personality adjustment as a predictor of marital relationship quality

This article presents a study on the relationship between spouses' personality adjustment and the quality of their relationship. Personality is crucial in building relationships as it forms the basis of an individual's behaviour. The marital relationship is a unique type of relationship where partners share common goals and values. The study was conducted on a group of 153 married couples with the aim of establishing the links between the adjustment of husbands and wives in terms of neuroticism, extraversion, conscientiousness, openness to experience, and agreeableness, with various aspects that make up the quality of marital life, including congruence, cohesion, emotional expression, satisfaction, self-fulfilment, similarity, and disappointment. The results obtained indicate several associations between personality adjustment and marital well-being, with the most significant ones being found for similarity in terms of levels of extraversion, neuroticism, and openness to experience. Higher levels of adjustment within extraversion and openness to experience, and lower similarity within neuroticism, are linked to higher satisfaction with marital relationships.