Matching for Physical Attractiveness in Married Couples
- 1 July 1979
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 5 (3) , 398-400
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014616727900500327
Abstract
Two samples of married couples, one from the mainland United States and one from Hawaii, show matching for physical attractiveness. The samples include young and recently married, middle-aged, and older couples. When age effects on attractiveness are partialled out, the spouse correlations are .30 and .25 for mainland and Hawaiian couples, respectively. These data suggest that the matching phenomenon is stable within and across generations.Keywords
This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
- Physical attractiveness and marriage adjustment in middle-aged couples.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1976
- Breakups Before Marriage: The End of 103 AffairsJournal of Social Issues, 1976
- Physical AttractivenessPublished by Elsevier ,1974
- Physical attractiveness and marital choice.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1972
- Assortative mating, or who marries whom?Behavior Genetics, 1972
- Assortative mating with respect to physical characteristicsEugenics Quarterly, 1968
- Importance of physical attractiveness in dating behavior.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1966
- Physical Attractiveness, Age, and Marital AdjustmentAmerican Sociological Review, 1951
- Homogamy in personality characteristics.The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1944
- Personality resemblances among married couples.The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1936