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Article: Dimensions of romantic love in British female adolescents. (Replications and Refinements)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Social Psychology
- Article date:
- June 1, 1993
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RUBIN BELIEVED his Love Scale (1970) could be subdivided into dependence, helpfulness, and absorption and that his Liking Scale (1970) could be subdivided into respect and similarity. Hendrick and Hendrick (1986) measured six factors that corresponded to Lee's (1976) lovestyles: Eros (physical attraction), Mania (dependent love), Storge (friendship), Pragma (practical love), Agape (altruistic love), and Ludus (noncommital love). Five of these lovestyles resemble Rubin's five components: dependence (Mania), helpfulness (Agape), absorption (Eros), respect (Pragma), and similarity (Storge). All the subjects in these studies were college students in the United States.
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