Intimacy, Passion, and Commitment in Young Romantic Relationships: Successfully Measuring the Triangular Theory of Love

Lemieux, Robert; Hale, Jerold L.

doi:10.2466/pr0.1999.85.2.497

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“…Adapted Triangular Love Scale (Lemieux & Hale, 1999) This is a 9-item adaptation of Sternberg's (1998) original measure and a later adaptation by Lemieux and Hale. The scale accesses three components of love, namely intimacy, passion, and commitment.…”

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The Relationship Between Dimensions of Love, Personality, and Relationship Length

2009

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The present study examined the associations among participant demographics, personality factors, love dimensions, and relationship length. In total, 16,030 participants completed an internet survey assessing Big Five personality factors, Sternberg's three love dimensions (intimacy, passion, and commitment), and the length of time that they had been involved in a relationship. Results of structural equation modeling (SEM) showed that participant age was negatively associated with passion and positively associated with intimacy and commitment. In addition, the Big Five factor of Agreeableness was positively associated with all three love dimensions, whereas Conscientiousness was positively associated with intimacy and commitment. Finally, passion was negatively associated with relationship length, whereas commitment was positively correlated with relationship length. SEM results further showed that there were minor differences in these associations for women and men. Given the large sample size, our results reflect stable associations between personality factors and love dimensions. The present results may have important implications for relationship and marital counseling. Limitations of this study and further implications are discussed.

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The Relationship Between Dimensions of Love, Personality, and Relationship Length

2009

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“…In this study, our aim is to explore whether there are differences per stage. Using psychological theory, we will distinguish between 'getting acquainted', 'in love', 'courtship', 'living together', 'several years of marriage', 'marital' and 'divorce' (Lemieux and Hale, 1999, 2002. These stages mimic to some extent the stages as described by Dwyer et al (1987), where customers move from awareness ('getting acquainted'), exploration ('courtship'), expansion ('living together'; 'just married'), commitment ('several years of marriage') to dissolution ('divorce').…”

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Customer intimacy and commitment to relationships with firms in five different sectors: Preliminary evidence

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Buunk

2011

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services

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“…Lemieux and Hale (1999) found passion and intimacy to be stronger than commitment in young dating adults. The current research found that the enamored in all five types of UL relationships reported less intense positive feelings than did those in equal love relationships (Hill et al, 1997, did not report results on intensity).…”

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The Prevalence and Nature of Unrequited Love

2013

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Unrequited love (UL) is unreciprocated love that causes yearning for more complete love. Five types of UL are delineated and conceptualized on a continuum from lower to greater levels of interdependence: crush on someone unavailable, crush on someone nearby, pursuing a love object, longing for a past lover, and an unequal love relationship. Study 1a found all types of UL relationships to be less emotionally intense than equal love and 4 times more frequent than equal love during a 2-year period. Study 1b found little evidence for limerent qualities of UL. Study 2 found all types of UL to be less intense than equal love on passion, sacrifice, dependency, commitment, and practical love, but more intense than equal love on turmoil. These results suggest that UL is not a good simulation of true romantic love, but an inferior approximation of that ideal.

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Intimacy, Passion, and Commitment in Young Romantic Relationships: Successfully Measuring the Triangular Theory of Love

Cited by 49 publications

References 10 publications

The Relationship Between Dimensions of Love, Personality, and Relationship Length

The Relationship Between Dimensions of Love, Personality, and Relationship Length

Customer intimacy and commitment to relationships with firms in five different sectors: Preliminary evidence

The Prevalence and Nature of Unrequited Love

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