Can long-distance relationships work?

Are there some particular personality characteristics required in that kind of relationship?

Could you image to be in a long-distance relationship?

RESEARCH QUESTIONWhat Personality Traits Make It Easier To

Maintain Satisfaction In A Long-Distance Relalationship (LDDR)?

METHODS Variable definitions

Personality traits are narrowed to contein mostly term Locus of control; strong internal or external person?

Participants Selecting by voluntarily, e-mail

Data Collection Participants will be asked to write an essey

about their experiences of long-distance relationships

HYPOTHESES Personality traits are important factor to

maintain satisfaction in long-distance relationships

Strong internal locus of control reflects to more effective stress coping strategies which in turn increases satisfaction in LDDRs.

Strong external locus of control contributes less satisfaction in long-distance relationships

TO CONCLUDE I want to point out my viewpoint about how

people´s personality reflects to their intimate relationships when this perspective is after all the basis of my research

Can LDDRs work?

To my mind, the answer to is very much aboutpeople´s attitude and if you don´t have to think ”Is it worth it?” you can passquestion: ”Can I do it?”

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