Mother of the Groom: The Role of Personality in Choosing a Wife

Overview

Objectives/Goals My project is a study in personality and how it may affect a person's decisions. I wanted to see if men really marry women with personalities like those of their mothers'. Methods/Materials Twenty-three trios of husband-wife-mother were tested. A total of sixty- eight people took two different personality tests. One test was the True Colors test and the other was the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test (MBTI). The True Colors test has four possible personality types, the MBTI sixteen types. A comparison of the results of the tests by the wife and mother of each husband was done. Results Fifteen of the twenty-three or sixty-five percent of mothers and wives matched in the True Colors Test, while six of twenty-three, or twenty six percent, of the wives exactly matched their mother in law in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. When looking at whether three of the four letter characteristics of the MBTI matched, fifteen of twenty-three, or sixty-five percent, matched. Conclusions/Discussion I conclude that men really do marry women with personalities like their mothers'. A mother's personality does play a significant role in the choice of a spouse for men.

Competition history

• CSEF 2005 Social Sciences (Junior Division Only) · Entry J1704

Resources

• CSEF project summary ↗

Related projects

Closest projects by meaning, across every fair and year in the corpus.

Browse more like this

• All Behavioural and Social Sciences projects
• CSEF Behavioural and Social Sciences projects
• Every CSEF 2005 project