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Journal of Social & Personal Relationships
Volume 24(4), 2007

 
CONTENTS
 
Gaines, Jr., Stanley O. Personality and personal relationship processes: An introduction to the special issue. 475-478
 
  "Personality is the relatively enduring pattern of recurrent interpersonal situations which characterize a human life" (Sullivan, 1953/1957, pp 110-111) 
 
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personality and psychology
interpersonal
emotion
 
 
Barelds, Dick P. H., and Barelds-Dijkstra, Pieternel Love at first sight or friends first? Ties among partner personality trait similarity, relationship onset, relationship quality, and love. 479-496
 
  The present study examined the relation between the type of relationship onset on the one hand and the degree to which partners have similar personalities and relationship quality on the other hand 
 
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personality and psychology
marriage and intimacy
emotion
 
 
Smith, C. Veronica, Nezlek, John B., Webster, Gregory D., and Paddock, E. Layne Relationships between daily sexual interactions and domain-specific and general models of personality traits. 497-515
 
  Although sexuality is an important component of personal relationships, there has been relatively little research on relationships between personality and everyday sexual behavior 
 
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health
personality and psychology
methodology
 
 
Markey, Patrick M., and Markey, Charlotte N. Romantic ideals, romantic obtainment, and relationship experiences. 517-533
 
  This research applied three different models of complementarity to romantic ideals, romantic obtainment, and the quality of romantic relationships: (i) Carson's (1969) model of interpersonal complementarity (i.e., individuals similar to each other on warmth, but opposite on dominance, are most compatible); (ii) Wiggins's (1979) model of complementarity (i.e., individuals whose personalities occur in a manner predicted by social exchange theory are most compatible); and (iii) the model of similarity (i.e., individuals with similar personalities are most compatible) 
 
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Kane, Heidi S., Jaremka, Lisa M., Guichard, AnaMarie C., Ford, Maire B., Collins, Nancy L., and Feeney, Brooke C. Feeling supported and feeling satisfied: How one partner's attachment style predicts the other partner's relationship experiences. 535-555
 
  This study explored the association between one partner's attachment style and the other partner's relationship experiences (N = 305 couples) 
 
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reticence
gender
 
 
Donnellan, M. Brent, Assad, Kimbely K., Robins, Richard W., and Conger Rand D. Do negative interactions mediate the effects of Negative Emotionality, Communal Positive Emotionality, and Constraint on relationship satisfaction? 557-573
 
  Previous research has shown that the personalities of both partners are associated with the qualities of their romantic relationship 
 
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interpersonal
 
 
Fischer, Judith L., Fitzpatrick, Jacki, and Cleveland H. Harrington Linking family functioning to dating relationship quality via novelty-seeking and harm-avoidance personality pathways. 575-590
 
  Organized by the systems theory concepts of equifinality and interdependence (Broderick, 1993) and Huston's (2000) social ecology model, this study examined two personality-based pathways to dating relationship quality among college students 
 
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family
interpersonal
competence
 
 
Kumashiro, Madoka, Rusbult, Caryl E., Finkenauer, Catrin, and Stocker, Shevaun L. To think or to do: The impact of assessment and locomotion orientation on the Michelangelo phenomenon. 591-611
 
  This work examines how individual differences in assessment and locomotion shape goal pursuits in ongoing relationships 
 
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