The Scale of Beliefs about Romantic Love:
Indicators of Validity and Internal Consistency
Keywords:
Romantic relationships, Love styles, Psychological measurementAbstract
Aspects of beliefs commonly interact in the dynamics of romantic relationships, thus influencing aspects of the perception, expectations and relationship strategies, among others. This research aimed to construct and validate a measure assessing beliefs about love in a Brazilian sample and verify its dimensional structure. A total of 1,530 individuals participated in this study, 660 of these being males and 870 females: The sample was divided into two sub-samples. The results showed a psychometric instrument with adequate parameters of precision and a confirmed structure of six-dimensional factors styles of love in a Brazilian sample: eros, agape, ludus, storge, mania and pragma.
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Colins, N. L., & Read, S. J. (1990). Adult attachment, workind models, and relationship quality in dating couples. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 644-663.
Contreras, R., Hendrick, S. S., & Hendrick, C. (1996). Perspectives on marital love and satisfaction in Mexican American and Anglo-American couples. Journal of Counseling and Development, 74, 408-415.
De Andrade, A. L., & Garcia, A. (2012). Desenvolvimento de uma medida multidimensional para avaliação de qualidade em relacionamentos românticos - Aquarela-R. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 25(4), 634-643. Retrieved from http://dx.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0102-79722012000400002
De Andrade, A. L., & Garcia, A (2009). Atitudes e crenças sobre o amor: versão brasileira da Escala de Estilos de Amor. Interpersona, 3(1), 89-102.
Enzmann, D. (1997). RanEigen: A program to determine the parallel analysis criterion for the number of principal components. Applied Psychological Measurement, 21, 232.
Ferrer Pérez, V. A., Bosch Fiol, E., Navarro Guzmán, C., Ramis Palmer, M. C., & García Buades, E. (2008). El concepto de amor en España. Psicothema, 20(4), 589-595.
Hair, J. F. Jr., Anderson. R. E., Tatham, R. L., & Black, W. C. (2005). Análise Multivariada de Dados. Porto Alegre: Bookman.
Hatfield, E., Traupmann, J., & Walster, G. W. (1978). Equity and extramarital sexuality. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 7, 127-141.
Hazan, C., & Shaver, P. R. (1987). Romantic love conceptualized as an attachment process. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 511-524.
Hendrick, C., & Hendrick, S. S. (1986). A theory and method of love. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 392-402.
Hendrick, C., & Hendrick, S. S. (2006). Styles of Romantic Love. In R. J. Sternberg, & K. Weis (Eds.), The New Psychology of Love. (pp. 149-170). Yale University.
Hendrick, C., Hendrick, S. S., & Adler, N. L. (1988). Romantic relationship: Love, satisfaction, and staying together. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54, 980-988.
Hendrick, C., Hendrick, S. S., & Dicke, A. (1998). The love attitudes scale: short form. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 15, 147-159.
Jonason, P. K., & Kavanagh, P. (2010). The dark side of love: The Dark Triad and love styles. Personality and Individual Differences, 49(6), 606-610.
Kanemasa, Y., Taniguchi, J., & Daibo, I. (2004). Love styles and romantic love experiences. Social Behavior and Personality, 32, 265-282.
Lee, J. A. (1977). A typology of styles of loving. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 3(2), 173-182.
Masuda, M. (2003). Meta-analyses of love scales: do various love scales measure the same psychological constructs? Japanese Psychological Research, 45(1), 25-37.
Neto, F. (2002). Colors associated with styles of love. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 94, 1303-1310.
Neto, F., Mullet, E., Deschamps, J. C., Barros, J., Benvindo, R., Camino, L., ... Machado, M. (2000). Cross-Cultural variations in attitudes toward love. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 31(5), 626-635.
Nunnally, J. C. (1978). Psychometric theory. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Pasquali, L. (2005). Rotação dos Fatores. In L. Pasquali (Org.), Análise Fatorial para Pesquisadores. (pp. 87-103). Brasília: LabPam.
Ratelle., C. Carbonneau, N. Vallerand, R., & Mageau, G. (2013). Passion in the romantic sphere: A look at relational outcomes. Motivation and Emotion, 37(1), 106-120.
Sánchez Aragón, R. (2005). Mexican Love Styles. In A. Garcia (Ed.), Personal Relationships: International Studies. (64-77). Vitória - ES: GM Gráfica e Editora
Scorsolini-Comin, F., & dos Santos, M. (2010). Satisfação Conjugal: Revisão Integrativa da Literatura Científica Nacional. Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa, 26(3), 525-532.
Sternberg, R. J. (1986). A triangular theory of love. Psychological Review, 93, 119-135.
Vohs, K. D., Finkenauer, C., & Baumeister, R. F. (2010). The sum of friends’ and lovers’ self-control scores predicts relationship quality. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2(2), 138-145. Retrieved from http://dx.doi:10.1177/1948550610385710
White, J. K., Hendrick, S. S., & Hendrick, C. (2004). Big five personality variables and relationship constructs. Personality an Individual Differences, 37, 1519-1530.
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2014-04-15
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De Andrade, A. L., & Garcia, A. (2014). The Scale of Beliefs about Romantic Love:: Indicators of Validity and Internal Consistency. Psicologia: Teoria E Pesquisa, 30(1), 63–71. Retrieved from https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17630
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