Agreeableness In Romantic Relationships

Personality is defined by thoughts, behaviours and feelings; a five factor model was created which underlines the personality types, they consist of openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism (Lundberg, 2013). Agreeableness, conscientiousness and neuroticism are the chosen personalities for this essay. Agreeableness is an individual’s behaviour whereby they contain characteristics such as being, generous, thoughtful, trusting, they are also very loving (Schmitt, Allik, McCrae & Benet-Martínez, 2007). Conscientiousness is where a person is hardworking, careful and they stick to the rules (Roberts, Lejuez, Krueger, Richards & Hill, 2014). Neuroticism is defined as an anxious personality, with a lot of emotional reactivity (Byrom & Murphy, 2013). These personality traits could take place in

Pernovic (2007) found that agreeableness may be needed in order to make a relationship that functions better, a significant positive correlation was found to show that those who are agreeable have higher marital and relationship satisfaction. Agreeableness in a relationship can take place due to the individual wanting to have a long lasting, happy relationship. Sharma & Raju (2013) also found that agreeableness had a negative correlation with any type of aggression. Low scores on the HEXACO agreeableness test was found to indicate anger against people who have misused the individuals, which then links into low scoring individuals to seek revenge. Those who have a higher score on the HEXACO agreeableness will link with stronger trait forgiveness, there were positive correlations to prove this (0.29 and 0.73), this was found by Sheppard and Boun, 2011. This study also found that people who are agreeable are less likely to seek romantic revenge. All research found shows that having an agreeable personality makes a relationship better, less hostile and more