Age and Responses to the Love Attitudes Scale: Consistency in Structure, Differences in Scores

Butler, Robert C.; Walker, W. Richard; Skowronski, John J.; Shannon, Lisa

doi:10.2190/yaa7-3c7g-tvxt-vatb

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“…Inconsistent findings from previous research were found regarding the relationship between age and Agape (e.g., Bierhoff & Rohmann, 2000;Butler et al, 1995;Montgomery & Sorell, 1997). It was not clear from the results of previous research whether age was positively, negatively or U-shaped related to Agape.…”

Section: Li-wen Lin and Catherine A Huddleston-casas 39mentioning

confidence: 58%

“…However, results from past research on age differences and Agape were inconsistent. Some research suggested that older individuals were less agamic (Butler, Walker, Skowronski, & Shannon, 1995;Schultz, Joo, & Toews, 2001), while Bierhoff and Rohmann (2000) found a U-shaped relationship between age and Agape. They found that individuals between the ages of 35 and 45 years old showed the lowest level of Agape, compared to individuals between the ages of 19 and 35 years old, and 45 and 54 years old.…”

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Agape Love in Couple Relationships

Li¹,

Huddleston-Casas

2005

Marriage & Family Review

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This study examined Agape love in couple relationships among randomly-sampled, telephone-surveyed adults currently involved in a romantic relationship. Agape refers to other-centered, altruistic love and is one of the six styles of love from John Lee's (1973) theory of love styles. The results showed that age, religiosity, and relationship satisfaction were positively correlated with Agape. People with more education reported lower Agape love scores than did less educated people. Men reported a higher level of Agape love than did women when controlling for age, education, religiosity and relationship satisfaction.

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Section: Li-wen Lin and Catherine A Huddleston-casas 39mentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Agape Love in Couple Relationships

Li¹,

Huddleston-Casas

2005

Marriage & Family Review

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“…A study carried out by Butler et al (1995) also used the Love Attitude Scale (LAS) to analyze the relationship between love styles and other variables such as gender, age, various social factors and culture. Findings indicated that women were prone to adopt Storge (friendship love) and Pragma (pragmatic love) love styles whereas, males were prone to adopt Ludus (playful love) and Agape (altruistic love) love styles.…”

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Investigating the Factor Structure of the Love Attitude Scale (LAS) with Malaysian Samples

Shahrazad¹,

Hoesni²,

Chong³

2012

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Love is an emotion often experienced by individuals involved in romantic relationships. As a result, love has become an important determining factor in entering marriage among couples. This experience of love may vary across individuals and cultures. Hence, love style measurement serves as an indicator in choosing appropriate partner. We investigate the reliability and validity of the Love Attitude Scale (LAS) in this study. This scale has 24 items which measures six love styles namely Eros, Ludus, Storge, Pragma, Mania and Agape. Respondents were 200 individuals ranging from 20-25 years old (100 male and 100 females). Respondents involved in this study were individuals with a partner and have experiences in love. Data were analyzed using alpha Cronbach analysis and factor analysis. Results from factorial analysis showed that the Love Attitude Scale succeeded in extracting six factors as suggested with 67.56% variance. The eigen values ranged from 1.04 to 4.44. Results showed medium high alpha Cronbach value for five dimensions, specifically, =0.79 for Eros, =0.87 for Storge, =0.82 for Pragma, =0.72 for Mania, and =0.83 for Agape. However, Ludus showed the lowest alpha Cronbach value which was =0.39. Findings indicated that this scale is appropriate for use in the Malaysian context and the love styles dimension as suggested by LAS is appropriate for cross cultural context.

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“…In effect, a decrease in agape love, as one matures may simply be the result of being less idealistic and having a more realistic view of relationship. Older people, especially females are less selfless and less possessive and dependent than people at younger ages (Butler, Walker, Skowronski, & Shannon, 1995). Therefore, based on the literature, it is hypothesized that the older a person gets, the more anger and hate will be present toward a former spouse.…”

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Love during divorce : development of the Sorokin Psycho-Social Love Inventory (SPSLI) and testing of a predictor model.

D’Ambrosio¹

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DEDICATIONThis dissertation is dedicated to:1. My children, Lauren, Robert and Nicoletta, whose love inspires me to live life meaningfull y.2. Os. Japie Vermeulen, who never formally received his PhD because much like me, life held too many other interesting mysteries for him, and he didn't have my mentor to guide him through completion of his dissertation. The scale was developed with a sample of 518 individuals who were going through a divorce or had been through a divorce. It measures high love, low love and hate actions toward a former spouse. The validation of the SPSLI utilized Classical Measurement Theory which allowed for the examination of reliability, face and content validity on the item structure in development of the subscales. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), which is theory driven, was then used to determine if higher order constructs could be found that would measure high and low love and high hate actions toward a former spouse. The results of CF A indicated that while the high love model met the requirements of a reliable and valid scale (high love a=O.92) it was necessary to change some of the v theoretical assumptions followed in the study in order to create a higher order low love scale (low love a= 0.81) and a higher order hate (a=0.86) scale.Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) then guided the development of the structural model which displayed the interrelations among latent variables hypothesized to predict high love actions. Based on the squared multiple correlations, the independent variables were able to explain 24% of the variance in anger toward a former spouse, and 39% of the variance in hate toward a former spouse. After including the mediators, the independent variables, together with anger toward spouse and hate, were able to explain 17% of the variance in emotions and 40% of the variance in altruism. The total model was able to explain 28 % of the variance in love actions toward a former spouse. One of the most significant results of the study was that it was possible for individuals who experienced divorce to express other-regarding love actions toward their former spouses.Altruism and positive emotions led divorcing individuals to show other-regarding love actions no matter whether hate or anger was present.VI

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Age and Responses to the Love Attitudes Scale: Consistency in Structure, Differences in Scores

Cited by 9 publications

References 25 publications

Agape Love in Couple Relationships

Agape Love in Couple Relationships

Investigating the Factor Structure of the Love Attitude Scale (LAS) with Malaysian Samples

Love during divorce : development of the Sorokin Psycho-Social Love Inventory (SPSLI) and testing of a predictor model.

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