Susan C South

Biographic Data

ID220190
NAMESusan C South
GIVEN NAMESSusan C
FAMILY NAMESouth
SIGNATURESOUTH S C
AFFILIATIONSPurdue University West Lafayette
ORCID0000-0003-0341-7074
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS26
TOTAL CITATIONS35
AUTHOR COUNT26
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • A Meta-Analysis of the Association Between Socioeconomic Status and Marital Satisfaction

    Open AccessSamantha Dashineau, Piper Reed et al.ARTICLEPersonality and Social Psychology…2026

    This preregistered meta-analysis aimed to determine the association of marital satisfaction with two demographic variables that are often used as indicators of socioeconomic status: income and education. It was hypothesized that income and education would individually have small to moderate associations with marital satisfaction. Data from 25,171 participants across 47 separate manuscripts and datasets were meta-analyzed in a random effects model…

  • Generalizability Theory Applied to Daily Relationship Quality: Substantive and Statistical Directions

    Open AccessMadison Shea Smith, Susan C SouthARTICLEMultivariate Behavioral Research2026

    Measuring daily romantic relationship quality is important for understanding conflict, support, and satisfaction processes in near real-time. Although there now exists a great deal of research on determinants and outcomes of daily relationship quality, these investigations often rely on several untested assumptions regarding sources of, and consistency in, variability. In this study, we tested the variance components for daily relationship qualit…

  • The association between personality, relationship satisfaction, and psychopathology in a three‐wave, longitudinal study

    Open AccessSamantha Dashineau, Skye C Napolitano et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality2024

    OBJECTIVE: The aim of this work was to better understand the role of personality as it relates to psychopathology, with satisfaction as a mediating variable. BACKGROUND: Personality is an important determinant of many life outcomes including relationship satisfaction and psychopathology. Previous work has demonstrated that broad domains of normal personality have low-to-moderate associations with various forms of psychopathology. Research has pri…

  • Social anhedonia, communication, and marital satisfaction in newlywed couples

    Open AccessKenneth Tan, Amber M Jarnecke et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality2023

    OBJECTIVE: Social anhedonia is associated with disinterest in social interactions and poor relationship functioning, yet little is known about the specific mechanisms underlying associations between social anhedonia and romantic relationship behaviors and satisfaction. We examined the links between social anhedonia, perceptions of conflict communication patterns, and marital satisfaction. METHOD: The current research examined the role of social a…

  • Risky Sexual Behaviors as a Transaction of Individual Differences and Situational Context

    Open AccessMadison Shea Smith, Susan C SouthARTICLEArchives of Sexual Behavior2023References: 109

  • The distinction between symptoms and traits in the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP)

    Open AccessColin G Deyoung, Michael Chmielewski et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality2022

    The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) is an empirically and quantitatively derived dimensional classification system designed to describe the features of psychopathology and, ultimately, to replace categorical nosologies. Among the constructs that HiTOP organizes are “symptom components” and “maladaptive traits,” but past HiTOP publications have not fully explicated the distinction between symptoms and traits. We propose working de…

  • Comparing phenotypic, genetic, and environmental associations between personality and loneliness

    Open AccessColin Freilich, Floyd Mann et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2022Cited by: 2References: 48

  • Exploring Gender Differences in Machiavellianism Using a Measurement Invariance Approach

    Katherine L Collison, Susan C South et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality Assessment2021

    Research suggests that men and women differ on mean levels of Dark Triad personality constructs such as Machiavellianism, but few studies have investigated whether or not these differences are due to actual latent trait differences or bias in measurement. Further, recent research suggests important challenges associated with existing measures of MACH in terms of overlap with psychopathy and matching expert descriptions. The present study took a r…

  • Association of Wealth With Longevity in US Adults at Midlife

    Open AccessEric D Finegood, Donnel A Briley et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2021

    This cohort study found that wealth accumulation at midlife was associated with longevity in US adults. Discordant sibling analyses suggested that this association is unlikely to be simply an artifact of early experiences or heritable characteristics shared by families

  • Big Five personality domains and relationship satisfaction: Direct effects and correlated change over time

    Open AccessMadison Shea Smith, Justin Davidson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality2019

    Changes in Neuroticism accompany parallel changes in relationship satisfaction in a large sample of married U.S. adults, suggesting an ongoing bidirectional influence between these constructs in enduring marriages

  • Dehumanization, prejudice, and social policy beliefs concerning people with developmental disabilities

    Open AccessLaura R Parker, Margo J Monteith et al.ARTICLEGroup Processes & Intergroup…2018Cited by: 3References: 13

    We investigated the nature of prejudice toward people with developmental disabilities, its potential roots in dehumanization, its implications for social policy beliefs affecting this target group, and strategies for reducing prejudice toward people with developmental disabilities. Studies 1 ( N = 196, MTurk) and 2 ( N = 296, undergraduates) tested whether prejudice took a hostile or ambivalent (both hostile and benevolent components) form. Consi…

  • Sex differences in the Big Five model personality traits: A behavior genetics exploration

    Open AccessSusan C South, Amber M Jarnecke et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2018Cited by: 5References: 41

  • The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A dimensional alternative to traditional nosologies.

    Roman Kotov, Robert F Krueger et al.ARTICLEJournal of Abnormal Psychology2017

  • Biometric Modeling of Gene‐Environment Interplay: The Intersection of Theory and Method and Applications for Social Inequality

    Open AccessSusan C South, Nayla R Hamdi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality2017

    For more than a decade, biometric moderation models have been used to examine whether genetic and environmental influences on individual differences might vary within the population. These quantitative Gene × Environment interaction models have the potential to elucidate not only when genetic and environmental influences on a phenotype might differ, but also why, as they provide an empirical test of several theoretical paradigms that serve as use…

  • Impulsivity, communication, and marital satisfaction in newlywed couples

    Open AccessKenneth Tan, Amber M Jarnecke et al.ARTICLEPersonal Relationships2017

    The authors used a vulnerability–stress–adaptation framework to examine how and why impulsivity affects communication and marital satisfaction in a sample of 100 newlywed couples. We specifically examined the links between impulsivity and perceptions of conflict communication patterns and their associations with marital satisfaction. Using an actor–partner interdependence framework, the results demonstrated that impulsivity was negatively associa…

  • Genetic strategies for probing conscientiousness and its relationship to aging

    Susan C South, Robert F KruegerARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2014Cited by: 1

    Conscientiousness is an important trait for understanding healthy aging. The present article addresses how behavioral and molecular genetics methodologies can aid in furthering explicating the link between conscientiousness and aspects of health and well-being in later life. We review the etiology of conscientiousness documented by both quantitative and molecular genetics methods. We also discuss the ways behavior genetics can be used to continue…

  • Genetic and environmental influences on affiliation with deviant peers during adolescence and early adulthood

    Nicholas Tarantino, Erin C Tully et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2014Cited by: 5References: 7

    Adolescence and early adulthood is a time when peer groups become increasingly influential in the lives of young people. Youths exposed to deviant peers risk susceptibility to externalizing behaviors and related psychopathology. In addition to environmental correlates of deviant peer affiliation, a growing body of evidence has suggested that affiliation with deviant peers is heritable. This study examined the magnitude of genetic and environmenta…

  • Predictors of relationship satisfaction in adoptive mothers

    Open AccessSusan C South, Karen J Foli et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social and Personal…2013Cited by: 4References: 54

    Relationship satisfaction has been widely studied among biological parents; however, concomitant research on adoptive parents is relatively lacking. The current study reports on a survey completed by 251 mothers who had adopted a child in the past 24 months. Participants completed measures of several aspects of the vulnerability-stress-adaptation model of marital satisfaction. Results indicated that satisfaction, as measured by a short form of th…

  • Genetics of Personality

    Open AccessSusan C South, Ted Reichborn‐Kjennerud et al.OTHERHandbook of Psychology, Second…2012

    In the current chapter, we review major findings from the fields of quantitative behavior genetics and molecular genetic research of personality. Behavior genetic approaches, including biometric modeling with twin and adoption samples, were vitally important in demonstrating that the variation in personality in the population is due to both genetic and environmental sources. Indeed, the heritability of broad domains of personality is consistently…

  • Depression in adoptive fathers: An exploratory mixed methods study

    Karen J Foli, Susan C South et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Men & Masculinity2012Cited by: 1

  • Five-Factor Model facets differentially predict in-the-moment affect and cognitions

    Open AccessJarrod A Johnson, Michelle L Miller et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2012References: 40

  • The Cognitive–Affective Processing System (Caps) approach to personality and the concept of personality disorder: Integrating clinical and social-cognitive research

    Open AccessNicholas R Eaton, Susan C South et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Personality2009Cited by: 4References: 33

  • The Heritability of Personality Is Not Always 50: Gene‐Environment Interactions and Correlations Between Personality and Parenting

    Open AccessRobert F Krueger, Susan C South et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality2008

    Twin studies of personality are consistent in attributing approximately half of the variance in personality to genetic effects, with the remaining variance attributed to environments that make people within the same families different. Such conclusions, however, are based on quantitative models of human individual differences that estimate genetic and environmental contributions as constants for entire populations. Recent advances in statistical …

  • Adolescent personality moderates genetic and environmental influences on relationships with parents

    Susan C South, Robert F Krueger et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2008Cited by: 2

    In contrast with early theories of socialization that emphasized the role of parents in shaping their children's personalities, recent empirical evidence suggests an evocative relationship between adolescent personality traits and the quality of the parent-adolescent relationship. Research using behavior genetic methods suggests that the association between personality and parenting is genetically mediated, such that the genetic effects on adoles…

  • Interpersonal Perception and Pathological Personality Features: Consistency Across Peer Groups

    Open AccessSusan C South, Thomas F Oltmanns et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality2005

    This study investigated the consistency of interpersonal perceptions regarding people who exhibit features of personality disorders. The participants ( N =82) were college students who were assessed for features of personality disorders, using both self‐report and peer nominations at Time 1. Two years later, participants attended four meetings in groups of 7 to 12 people for a total of 2 hours. Group discussions were designed to encourage interac…