Table 4.

Effect Sizes of Actor Personality, Partner Personality, Difference Scores, and Second-Order Polynomial Regression Coefficients of Self-Reported Big Five Traits Predicting GWB, RWB, Strain and Support

		Dyrenforth et al. (2010)						Current Study
	Sample Outcome	HILDA GWB	HILDA RWB	BHPS GWB	BHPS RWB	GSOEP GWB	HRS GWB	HRS Strain	HRS Support
Predictor				Standardized regression coefficients
Extraversion	Actor Personality	.19**	.12**	.13**	.08**	.13**	.24**	−.07**	.15**
	Partner Personality	.10**	.08**	.02	.01	.08**	.08**	−.06**	.08**
	DS	−.03*	−.06**	.00	.00	−.01	−.04**	.04**	−.04**
Neuroticism	Actor Personality	−.26**	−.18**	−.34**	−.11**	−.26**	−.26**	.23**	−.16**
	Partner Personality	−.12**	−.15**	−.10**	−.07**	−.12**	−.09**	.14**	−.11**
	DS	.03*	−.01	.04**	.03*	.01	−.01	.00	−.03*
Agreeableness	Actor Personality	.24**	.20**	.21**	.21**	.12**	.16**	−.07**	.13**
	Partner Personality	.09**	.13**	.06**	.08**	.04**	.05**	−.10**	.11**
	DS	.02	.01	.04*	.01	−.04**	−.03*	−.06**	−.05**
Conscientiousness	Actor Personality	.18**	.12**	.23**	.16**	.12**	.21**	−.11**	.13**
	Partner Personality	.10**	.10**	.04**	.04**	.05**	.10**	−.11**	.12**
	DS	.03*	−.03	.00	.01	−.01	−.04**	.05**	−.08**
Openness	Actor Personality	−.04**	−.09**	.09**	.05**	.14**	.16**	−.02	.10**
	Partner Personality	−.02	−.03*	.02	.01	.08**	.06**	−.05**	.08**
	DS	−.02	−.06**	.01	.00	−.02	−.06**	.07**	−.09**
		R-Squared
All Big Five traits combined	Actor Personality	.102	.063	.151	.055	.104	.107	.065	.050
	Partner Personality	.017	.032	.011	.010	.022	.011	.025	.021
	DS	.000	.005	.000	.000	.000	.002	.004	.008
	Second-order terms	–	–	–	–	–	.003	.005	.010

Note. Please see Table 1 for sample characteristics of samples included in Dyrenforth et al. (2010). HILDA = Household Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia; BHPS = British Household Panel Study; GSOEP = German Socio-Economic Panel Study; HRS = Health and Retirement Study; GWB = general well-being; RWB = relational well-being; DS = standardized absolute difference score.

^*p < .05

^**p < .01