Throughout their lives, people experience different relationship events, such as beginning or dissolving a romantic relationship. Personality traits predict the occurrence of such relationship events (i.e., selection effects), and relationship events predict changes in personality traits (i.e., socialization effects), summarized as personality–relationship transactions. So far, evidence was partly inconsistent as to how personality traits and relationship events are linked with each other. In this article, we argue that unnoticed age differences might have led to these inconsistencies. To systematically test for age differences in transactions, we conceptualize relationship events in terms of gains and losses and apply a developmental perspective on transactions.

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人格关系交易的发展视角：来自三个全国代表性样本的证据


在一生中，人们会经历不同的关系事件，例如开始或解除浪漫关系。人格特质预测此类关系事件的发生（即选择效应），关系事件预测人格特质的变化（即社会化效应），概括为人格-关系交易。到目前为止，关于人格特质和关系事件如何相互关联的证据部分不一致。在本文中，我们认为，未被注意到的年龄差异可能导致了这些不一致。为了系统地测试交易中的年龄差异，我们根据收益和损失来概念化关系事件，并对交易应用发展视角。