Abstract

CASSEPP-BORGES, Vicente  and  MARTINS TEODORO, Maycoln Leôni. Reduced version of triangular love scale: feeling's characteristics in Brazil. Interam. j. psychol. [online]. 2009, vol.43, n.1, pp. 30-38. ISSN 0034-9690.

The Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love divides the feeling in the components of Intimacy, Passion, and Decision/Commitment. This study had the objective of analyze the characteristics of love in a sample of undergraduate students of the South of Brazil. It utilized itself the reduced version of the Triangular Love Scale, which obtained adequate values of internal consistency and factorial structure. The results indicated resemblances between the genders in the scores of the three dimensions. Through the transversal comparison of the data, observed that the levels of love have the tendency to increase until the marriage. The three dimensions of the love contribute with his particularities in an explanatory model of the satisfaction in the relationship. Then, the Intimacy, the Passion and the Decision/Commitment can be considered independent, although correlated. It suggests itself the inquiry of the longitudinal aspects of the love.

Keywords : Love; Intimacy; Passion; Relationship satisfaction; Linear regression.

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