CiteSeerX — MEASUREMENT OF ROMANTIC LOVE1 Documents Authors Tables Log in Sign up MetaCart DMCA Donate Documents: Advanced Search Include Citations Authors: Advanced Search Include Citations | Disambiguate Tables: DMCA MEASUREMENT OF ROMANTIC LOVE1 Cached Download Links [thecfce.com] [cooley.libarts.wsu.edu] Save to List Add to Collection Correct Errors Monitor Changes by Zick Rubin Summary Citations Active Bibliography Co-citation Clustered Documents Version History BibTeX @MISC{Rubin_measurementof,     author = {Zick Rubin},     title = {MEASUREMENT OF ROMANTIC LOVE1},     year = {} } Share OpenURL   Abstract This study reports Ihc initial results of an attempt to introduce and validate a social-psychological construct oi " romantic love. Starting with the assumption that love is an interpersonal attitude, an internally consistent papcr-and-pencil love scale was developed. The conception of romantic love included three com-ponents: affiliative and dependent need, a predisposition to help, and an orienta-tion of exclusiveness and absorption. Love-scale scores were only moderately correlated with scores on a parallel scale of "liking, " which reflected a more traditional conception of interpersonal attraction. The validity of the love scale was assessed in a questionnaire study and a laboratory experiment. On the basis of the emerging conception of love, it was predicted that college dating couples who loved each other a great deal (as categorized by their love-scale scores) would spend more time gazing into one another's eyes than would couples who loved each other to a lesser degree. The prediction was confirmed. Love is generally regarded to be the deep-est and most meaningful of sentiments. It has occupied a preeminent position in the art and literature of every age, and it is presum-ably experienced, at least occasionally, by the vast majority of people. In Western culture, moreover, the association between love and marriage gives it a unique status as a link between the individual and the structure of society. In view of these considerations, it is sur-prising to discover that social psychologists have devoted virtually no attention to love. Although interpersonal attraction has been a major focus of social-psychological theory and research, workers in this area have not at-tempted to conceptualize love as an inde-pendent entity. For Heider (1958), for ex-ample, "loving " is merely intense liking— there is no discussion of possible qualitative 1 This report is based on a doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of Michigan. The re-search was supported by a prccloctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health and by a grant-in-aid from the Society for the Psycho- Keyphrases measurement romantic love1    interpersonal attraction    love-scale score    consistent papcr-and-pencil love scale    interpersonal attitude    laboratory experiment    preeminent position    mental health    romantic love    social-psychological construct oi romantic love    dependent need    vast majority    questionnaire study    social psychologist    love scale    parallel scale    major focus    great deal    prccloctoral fellowship    doctoral dissertation    national institute    traditional conception    ihc initial result    inde-pendent entity    western culture    unique status    social-psychological theory    Powered by: About CiteSeerX Submit and Index Documents Privacy Policy Help Data Source Contact Us Developed at and hosted by The College of Information Sciences and Technology © 2007-2019 The Pennsylvania State University