Show N Lets Let's Explore Your Mind Similar Backgrounds Aid Marital Success By y Albert Alhert E. E gam gamIs Is it better for married happiness to have similar temperaments than similar I educations and background No Temperament is a rather shifting I thing hard to define and put your finger on But education and background are easy to j outline outline things on which we can easily compare people Surveys show similar family family family fam- fam j ily backgrounds social stand standings common habits and expectations of life are far more t important than extroverts married to extroverts ex- ex exi ext i t introverts to introverts or any II j other combination of temperament in making making making mak- mak j ing a successful marriage i Are college students who are poor in IEnglish t I English more unstable and less self self-conti- j dent than good English students J JAt At the beginning No but later on j Yes At Indiana U. U psychologist Robert Shaffer gave the Bernreuter personality J i inventory to both good and poor students in j t English The first semester the poor students students students stu- stu dents scored as less neurotic more self- self j confident and better adjusted to environ- environ j 4 ment Later the good students passed the j I poor ones and became more extroverted j jand and self-confident self than average college students students stu- stu dents while the poor students gradually became less self-confident self and less sociable sociable sociable so so- soi j i the longer they remained in college i What are the main differences between t t student achievers and f those who do b better or worse than their their f aptitudes indicate f Psychologist W. W D. D Altus California S un university vers ty by appropriate methods studied the characteristics of two groups of psychology psychology t t. students of equal aptitude One group achieved above the their r aptitude scores the other below The tended tended tended tend- tend f ed toward greater femininity lack of or greater fearlessness s self self- lf- lf pj assertiveness and excitableness than the the achievers ers Also greater love of and dependence dependence de de- deb on other people The achievers er tended in the opposite direction f i. i 41 if J |