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A theory and method of love.
Clyde Hendrick,Susan S. Hendrick +1 more
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In this article, Hendrick et al. used a 42-item rating questionnaire, with seven items measuring each of the six basic love styles: Eros (passionate love), Ludus (game-playing love), Storge (friendship love), Pragma (logical, shopping list" love), Mania (possessive, dependent love), and Agape (all-giving, selfless love).Abstract:
This research was part of a larger research program on love and sex attitudes. Earlier work on love was reported in Hendrick, Hendrick, Foote, and Slapion-Foote (1984). The work on love extends Lee's (1973/1976) theory of six basic love styles: Eros (passionate love), Ludus (game-playing love), Storge (friendship love), Pragma (logical, "shopping list" love), Mania (possessive, dependent love), and Agape (all-giving, selfless love). Theory development has proceeded concurrently with the development of measurement scales. Study I (N = 807) used a 42-item rating questionnaire, with 7 items measuring each of the love styles. Six love style scales emerged clearly from factor analysis. Internal reliability was shown for each scale, and the scales had low intercorrelations with each other. Significant relationships were found between love attitudes and several background variables, including gender, ethnicity, previous love experiences, current love status, and self-esteem. Confirmatory Study II (N = 567) replicated factor structure, factor loadings, and reliability analyses of the first study. In addition, the significant relationships between love attitudes and gender, previous love experiences, current love status, and self-esteem were also consistent with the results of Study I. The love scale shows considerable promise as an instrument for future research on love.read more
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Romantic Love Conceptualized as an Attachment Process
Cindy Hazan,Phillip R. Shaver +1 more
TL;DR: It is explored the possibility that romantic love is an attachment process--a biosocial process by which affectional bonds are formed between adult lovers, just as affectional Bonds are formed earlier in life between human infants and their parents.
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Adult attachment, working models, and relationship quality in dating couples.
Nancy L. Collins,Stephen J. Read +1 more
TL;DR: Dimensions of attachment style were strongly related to how each partner perceived the relationship, although the dimension of attachment that best predicted quality differed for men and women.
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Does High Self-Esteem Cause Better Performance, Interpersonal Success, Happiness, or Healthier Lifestyles?
TL;DR: This article found that self-esteem does not predict the quality or duration of relationships, nor does it predict the likelihood of cheating and bullying in children, and the highest and lowest rates of cheating were found in different subcategories of high selfesteem.
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Use of Exploratory Factor Analysis in Published Research Common Errors and Some Comment on Improved Practice
Robin K. Henson,J. Kyle Roberts +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the use of factor analysis in current published research across four psychological journals and found that factor analysis applied in over 50% of the studies in the literature.
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A triangular theory of love.
TL;DR: A triangular theory of love is proposed in this paper, where the authors argue that love has three components: intimacy, which encompasses the feelings of closeness, connectedness, and bondedness one experiences in loving relationships; passion, which represents the drives that lead to romance, physical attraction, and sexual consummation; and decision/commitment, which describes the decision that one loves another, and in the long term, the commitment to maintain that love.
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Measurement of romantic love.
TL;DR: An internally consistent papcr-and-pencil love scale was developed starting with the assumption that love is an interpersonal attitude, and it was predicted that college dating couples who loved each other a great deal would spend more time gazing into one another's eyes than would couples who love each other to a lesser degree.
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Breakups Before Marriage: The End of 103 Affairs
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