Evidence of Construct Validity of the Love Components Scale
Keywords:
Psychology of love, Close relationships, Validity, ReliabilityAbstract
This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Brazilian version of the reduced Love Components
Scale. Participants were 491 people in loving relationships. Exploratory factor analysis extracted three factors that explained
73.5% of the common variance that did not reproduce the original structure. The factors showed moderate to strong correlations
with each other and with the components of the reduced Triangular Love Scale. The Schmid-Leiman solution indicated the
existence of a second-order factor. The reliability coefficients revealed a high internal consistency for all dimensions of the
instrument. Additional exploratory factor analysis with the set of items of the two measurements revealed structural indications
that they may represent the same components of love.
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psych.093008.100318
Carreño, M., & Serrano, G. (1995). Análisis de instrumentos para
la medida del amor. Revista de Psicologia Social, 10, 131-148.
Cassep-Borges, V., & Teodoro, M. (2007). Propriedades
Psicométricas da Versão Brasileira da Escala Triangular do
Amor de Sternberg. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 20, 513-
522.
Cassep-Borges, V., & Teodoro, M. (2009). Versión Reducida de la
Escala Triangular del Amor: Características del Sentimiento
en Brasil. Interamerican Journal of Psychology, 43, 30-38.
Critelli, J. W., Myers, E. J., & Loos, V. E. (1986). The components
of love: Romantic attraction and sex role orientation. Journal
of Personality, 54, 355-370. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1986.
tb00399.x
Damásio, B. F. (2012). Uso da análise fatorial exploratória em
psicologia. Avaliação Psicológica, 11, 213-228.
Driscoll, R., Davis, K., & Lipetz, M. (1972). Parental interference
and romantic love. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 24, 1-10.
Fromm, E. (1966). A arte de amar. Belo Horizonte: Itatiaia.
(Trabalho original publicado em 1956)
Gouveia, V. V., Fonseca, P. N., Cavalcanti, J. P. N., Diniz, P. K. C.,
& Dória, L. C. (2009). Versão abreviada da Escala Triangular
do Amor: evidências de validade fatorial e consistência interna.
Estudos de Psicologia (Natal), 14, 31-39. doi:10.1590/S1413-
294X2009000100005
Graham, J. M., & Christiansen, K. (2009). The reliability of
romantic love: A reliability generalization meta-analysis.
Personal Relationships, 16, 49-66. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-
6811.2009.01209.x
Hair Jr., J. F., Black , W. C., Babin, B. J., Anderson, R. E., &
Tatham, R. L. (2009). Análise Multivariada de Dados. Porto
Alegre: Bookman.
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of social scientists’ attempts to measure passionate love.
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 29, 143”“164.
doi: 10.1177/0265407511431055
Hatfield, E., & Sprecher, S. (1986). Measuring passionate love in
intimate relationships. Journal of Adolescence, 9, 383-410.
doi:10.1016/S0140-1971(86)80043-4
Hendrick, C., & Hendrick, S. (1986). A theory and method of love.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 392-402.
doi:10.1037/0022-3514.50.2.392
Hernandez, J. A. E. (1999). Validação da Estrutura da Escala
Triangular do Amor: Análise Fatorial Confirmatória. Aletheia,
9, 15-26.
Hernandez, J. A. E., & Oliveira, I. M. B. (2003). Os componentes do
amor e a satisfação. Psicologia: Ciência e Profissão, 21, 58-69.
Kaiser, H. F. (1960). The application of eletronic-computers to
fator-analysis. Educational and Psychological Measurement,
20, 141-151. doi: 10.1177/001316446002000116
Laros, J. A. (2005). O uso da análise fatorial: algumas diretrizes
para pesquisadores. In L. Pasquali (Ed..), Análise fatorial para
pesquisadores (pp. 163-184). Brasília: LabPAM.
Lorenzo-Seva, U. (2003). A factor simplicity index. Psychometrika,
68, 49-60.
Lorenzo-Seva, U., & Ferrando, P. J. (2006). FACTOR: A computer
program to fit the Exploratory Factor Analysis model. Behavior
Research Methods, Instruments & Computers,38, 88-91.
Maslow, A. H. (1974). Introdução à psicologia do ser. Rio de
Janeiro: Eldorado. (Trabalho original publicado em 1968)
Masuda, M. (2003). Meta-analyses of love scales: Do various love
scales measure the same psychological constructs. Japanese
Psychological Research, 45, 25-37. doi: 10.1111/1468-
5884.00030
Rubin, Z. (1970). Measurement of romantic love. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 16, 265-273.
Rubin, Z. (1973) Liking and Loving. An invitation to Social
Psychology. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.
Schmid, J., & Leiman, J. N. (1957). The development of hierarchical
factor solutions. Psychometrika, 22, 53-61.
Sternberg, R. J. (1986). A triangular theory of love. Psychological
Review, 93, 119-135. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.93.2.119
Sternberg, R. J. (1988). The Triangle of Love. New York: Basic
Books.
Sternberg, R. J. (1997). Construct validation of a triangular
love scale. European Journal of Psychology, 27, 313-335.
doi:10.1002/(SICI)1099-0992(199705)27:3<313::AIDEJSP824>
3.0.CO;2-4
Sternberg, R. J. (1998). Cupid’s arrow: The course of love through
time. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sternberg, R. J. (2006). A duplex theory of love. In R. J. Sternberg
& K. Weis (Eds.), The New Psychology of Love (pp.184-199).
New Haven: Yale University Press.
Sternberg, R. J., & Grajek, S. (1984). The nature of love. Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, 47, 312-329.
Ten Berge, J. M. F., & Kiers, H. A. L. (1991). A numerical approach
to the approximate and the exact minimum rank of a covariance
matrix. Psychometrika, 56, 309-315.
Velicer, W. F. (1976). Determining the number of components from
the matrix of partial correlations. Psychometrika, 41, 321-327.
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Hernandez, J. A. E. (2015). Evidence of Construct Validity of the Love Components Scale. Psicologia: Teoria E Pesquisa, 31(2), 249–257. Retrieved from https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/18113
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