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The Role of Introversion vs. Extroversion on Marital Bliss

Research Question

The research question for this topic will be to investigate the effects of personality traits, that is, introversion and extroversion on the social life of an individual and success in marriage and relationships.

Bibliography

Akande, W. A., Adetoun, B. E., Adewuyi, M. F., Akande, T. I., E, Ntshanga, L. P., et al. (2012). The Wisdom of Eve: On Differentiating the Colours of Emotion that May Be Threats to Good Life. Springer Science & Business Media, 107(3), 531-560.

This journal investigates the effects of one's personality, emotions, and reasoning on one's behavior. The research was conducted through observation of people with different character traits and how they react in the society and at the workplace. Using students and gauging them on the Differential Emotions Scale, the researchers were able to detect attractions between people of different behaviors and record their results. The results showed that people tend to be more attracted and associate with people who are indifferent to them in the context that an outgoing person will most likely get attracted to a person with different characteristics. The methodology used in the research is based on experiments, and most of the respondents were students. In this context, the results lack generalizability to all the population of the world. However, the journal is essential in contributing to the psychological and personality attributes of a person that affect their behavior.

Huber, V. (2003). Personality, cognitive style, demographic characteristics and Internet use - Findings from the HomeNetToo project. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 62(2), 79-90.

In this journal, respondents from different classes of life were investigated and analyzed in relation to their personality and internet use at home. The rationale for using the internet at home was fetched in the context that, respondents who used internet at home more and were with their families show a lot of misunderstandings and discomfort towards one another. People from different cultural backgrounds were analyzed, and their responses recorded over time. The results showed that couples who had similar personality characteristics were more prone to avoiding one another and participating in internet use. The journal fails to connect directly to the personality of the participants since there were no proper personality measurements measures used.

Millon, T; Simonsen, E; Birkett,-Smith, M; Davis, R. (2008). Psycho-paathy and the Five-Factor Model of Personality. Journal of Personality, 171-201.

In this journal, the researchers investigated the impact of personality traits on their agreeableness in the society. Two of the various factors of personality investigated included introversion and extraversion with analysis of twenty individuals with such kind of personality traits. , the researchers concluded that extroverts are more likeable in the society by persons of all traits because of their humor and other outgoing traits. In this context, the researchers concluded that introverted persons are more likely to stay lonely and be unmarried for long in their lives. However, this journal fails to capture all the information of other traits that affect marriage bliss. This journal contributes to the knowledge of personality and the effects of personality on a personal life altogether.

Sears, D. J. (2011). The Content, Structure, and Outcomes of Differentiated Pleasure: An Exploration. Journal of Consumer Behavior and Personality, 236.

This journal focused on the experiences of pleasure and sources of pleasure from personal traits characteristics through investigation of personality traits and the extent of marketing and types of pleasures an individual drew from the workplace. In the studies, participants with different types of pleasures were analyzed, and results recorded. In this context, the results of highly extroverted people showed less pleasure of working in marketing positions and low outcomes of their results. This contradicts the main thinking of people that extroverted people has more differentiated success and happiness in social places. This acts as a counterargument for the main psychological ideas.

Winifred, B., & Terman, L. (2006, April 28). Personality Characteristics Of Happily Married, Unhappily Married, And Divorced Persons. Journal of Personality., 3(4), 290-311.

This journal answers the question of why marriages break and why some families are happy while others have major discomforts and low satisfaction. It was carried out through analysis of 436 married couples and 116 divorced couples across a region around Stanford University. The married couples were given questionnaires to fill up which enabled the researchers to classify them into two groups one containing happily married couples and the other least happily married couples. Through the use of variables, the researchers found low or negligible correlation between the degree of happiness and the degree of resemblance between the husband and the wife. In this context, the research is convenient in bridging the gap of knowledge relating to how people with semblance match and are likely to make good relationship and marriage.

REFERENCES

Akande, W. A., Adetoun, B. E., Adewuyi, M. F., Akande, T. I., E, Ntshanga, L. P., et al. (2012). The Wisdom of Eve: On Differentiating the Colours of Emotion that May Be Threats to Good Life. Springer Science & Business Media, 107(3), 531-560.