Attachment dimensions and the big five personality traits: Associations and comparative ability to predict relationship quality |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium;2. KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Belgium;3. Post-doctoral fellow at Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Belgium;1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States;2. University of Michigan, United States;1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland;2. Mental Health Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland;3. Department of Social Services and Health Care, Helsinki, Finland;4. IBS, Unit of Personality, Work and Health Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland;1. Psychology Department, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B4P 2R6;2. Psychology Department, Saint Mary''s University, 923 Robie St., Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 3C3 |
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| Abstract: | Several studies have explored associations between measures of adult attachment style and the Big Five personality traits or factors, but the studies have not included current dimensional measures of attachment style (Brennan, Clark, & Shaver, 1998) or the most complete (NEO-PI-R; Costa & McCrae, 1992) and frequently used (BFI; John, Donahue, & Kentle, 1991) measures of the Big Five. Moreover, most studies after Shaver and Brennan’s (1992) have not compared attachment style and Big Five measures as predictors of relationship quality. Here, we summarize past research and report two studies comparing Brennan et al.’s two-dimensional measure of attachment style with the BFI and NEO-PI-R measures of the Big Five. There are consistent and theoretically meaningful associations between the attachment-style and personality trait measures, but attachment-style dimensions still predict relationship quality better than measures of the Big Five. Implications are discussed. |
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