A reworking of correlations between the spouses of three matched groups of happily married, troubled, and separating couples on the 10 traits of the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey showed: (1) stronger evidence than previously reported of unhappiness in marriage being associated with inverse spouse relationships on personality traits, (2) less evidence than is shown in a study by Cattell and Nesselroade for the operability of the “completeness” principle in marriage. Some differences between the two studies are also discussed.
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