Abstract
The current work investigates the effects of a broadly adopted online matchmaking site on the nature and quality of married couples formed. Measures of personality, emotion, interests, values and marital adjustment were collected from a sample of married couples who had been introduced by an online matchmaking service, and from a sample of married couples who had met through unfettered choice. Results showed that couples introduced by the online matchmaking site were more similar, and that such similarity in general using the current measures was a strong predictor of marital adjustment in both online matched and comparison couples. Marriages resulting from the online matchmaking service were observed to have significantly higher scores for marital adjustment. We conclude that online matchmaking services based on predictive inference and proscribed selection can be observed to have a significant and meaningful impact on marital quality
Highlights
The current work investigates the effects of a broadly adopted online matchmaking site on the nature and quality of married couples formed
Current results suggest that online matchmaking services are capable of altering some fundamental characteristics of intimate relationships
The current data supports the conclusion that online matching affected both mate selection and relationship quality
Summary
The current work investigates the effects of a broadly adopted online matchmaking site on the nature and quality of married couples formed. Matchmaking services assume it is possible to affect your selections when looking for a mate in a way that will improve on the outcome in a manner that would likely not occur without intervention This marks a potential shift in focus back to the mate selection characteristics of singles when searching for a relationship partner. Some such services argue that the process of mate-selection can be enhanced by applying findings from research on the attributes of successful relationships to the process of identifying potential matches among their base of single users While this process does not have any direct implications for research directed toward relationship dynamics within marriages, it does bring to the fore the literature on individual characteristics as they predict relationship quality.
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