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In romantic relationships, the effect of partner's personalities are not isolated to the partner's life.
Aspects of people's daily lives can be predicted by their partner's traits, including their work success.
Research shows that partners' conscientiousness predicts job satisfaction, income, and promotion likelihood.
Conscientiousness is tied to household work and relationship satisfaction, which may facilitate work success.
When we think about professional success, we're quick to link it to our own strengths. Get a raise? It's because of your work ethic! Land a new title? You earned it!
All of this may be true, but there's more to the story. Research suggests that people's professional successes are not purely the outcome of their own work. In the background, their romantic partner's personality may be setting them up for success (Solomon and Jackson, 2014).
Personality Extends Beyond a Person
Personality researchers often rely on the Big Five traits to help define and differentiate tendencies within and across people. The five traits include extraversion (outgoing, gregariousness), agreeableness, openness, neuroticism (anxious, low on emotional stability), and conscientiousness. If you know where someone falls on these five dimensions of personality, you probably have a pretty good........