Resumen de The Long Reach of One�s Spouse: : Spouses� Personality Influences Occupational Success
Brittany C. Solomon, Joshua J. Jackson
You marry your spouse �for better, for worse� and �for richer, for poorer,� but does your choice of partner make you richer or poorer? It is unknown whether people�s dispositional characteristics can seep into their spouses� workplace. Using a representative, longitudinal sample of married individuals (N = 4,544), we examined whether Big Five personality traits of participants� spouses related to three measures of participants� occupational success: job satisfaction, income, and likelihood of being promoted. For both male and female participants, partner conscientiousness predicted future job satisfaction, income, and likelihood of promotion, even after accounting for participants� conscientiousness. These associations occurred because more conscientious partners perform more household tasks, exhibit more pragmatic behaviors that their spouses are likely to emulate, and promote a more satisfying home life, enabling their spouses to focus more on work. These results demonstrate that the dispositional characteristics of the person one marries influence important aspects of one�s professional life.
