Love as Expansion of the Self

Aron, Arthur; Tomlinson, Jennifer M.

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“…The triangular theory, of course, is not the only theory of love that might be applied to feelings toward musical instruments. Other theories of love have been proposed as well, and these also might be applied, such as Shaver, Hazan, and Bradshaw's (1988) attachment-based theory of love; Aron and Tomlinson's (2019) theory of love as expansion of the self; Hendrick and Hendrick's (2019) theory of styles of romantic love; Buss's (2019) theory of the evolution of love; or Clark, Hirsch, and Monin's (2019) theory of love as mutual communal responsiveness. Whichever theory is applied, we may understand better people's relationships to their musical instruments if we look at such relationships as involving, at least in part, feelings of love and attraction.…”

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Toward a triangular theory of love for one’s musical instrument

Sternberg

2020

Psychology of Music

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This article presents an application of a triangular theory of love as it applies to love for musical instruments. The triangular theory comprises three components: intimacy, passion, and commitment. Intimacy, which is primarily emotional, refers to feelings of closeness, connectedness, warmth, communication, and emotional support. Passion, which is primarily motivational, refers to feelings that one cannot live without another, that one needs another in one’s life, and that one cannot even imagine one’s life without the other. Commitment refers to the decision to love and to stay in the relationship indefinitely. These components are applied in the article toward love of musical instruments, and the theory is given as an account of some of the factors that may lead students of musical instruments either to stay with those instruments or to quit playing them. A measure is described that could be used to assess love of musical instruments (and that is currently being validated), and empirical findings from past studies on the triangular theory of love are presented.

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“…Intimacy is essential to attachment in close relationships (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2019). Intimacy is also a basis for the expansion of self-for becoming someone emotionally, cognitively, or even spiritually beyond where one has been before (Aron & Tomlinson, 2019).…”

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Toward a triangular theory of love for one’s musical instrument

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2020

Psychology of Music

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“…Intimacy is the experience of closeness, connectedness and attachment in a love relationship (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2019). Intima cy enables partners to extend their selves to the dyad, to reach emotional, cognitive or spiritual self-transcendence (Aron & Tomlinson, 2019). In terms of emotionality, intimacy is the warmth experienced in a love relationship.…”

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Sex differences in predictors of relationship satisfaction: The effects of dyadic coping, love, sexual motivation and having children

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The present study explored sex differences in the predictors of relationship satisfaction (dyadic coping, love, sexual motivation, having children). A total of 465 Hungarian participants (319 women and 146 men) with a mean age of 33.6 years completed an online test battery comprising four self-report measures. The results revealed that women’s relationship satisfaction had more significant predictors than men’s, and half of the common predictors showed significant sex differences. Men’s satisfaction was positively predicted by the Intimacy and Passion components of love, while it was negatively predicted by Negative Dyadic Coping and by having at least one child. Besides Intimacy and Passion, two common predictors across sexes, women’s satisfaction was also positively predicted by the Commitment component of love, and also by successful coping with dyadic stress. By contrast, negative predictors were having sex as a means of coping with emotional problems (Sex as Coping), the individual aspect of dyadic coping (One’s Own Dyadic Coping), and Negative Dyadic coping. The findings are discussed in both bio-psychological and social constructionist approaches.

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“…Intimacy is the basis for friendship and for feelings of companionship in one's relations with a loved one (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2019). Intimacy can involve one's growing through a relationship and becoming whomever one wishes to be (Aron & Tomlinson, 2019).…”

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Love of one’s musical instrument as a predictor of happiness and satisfaction with musical experience

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Hurwitz

Hwang

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Psychology of Music

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In this study, we performed a first assessment of the construct validity of a theory and measure of love for music students’ musical instruments. In all, 288 undergraduates at a large and selective Northeastern university in the United States completed measures of their love of their musical instrument with respect to intimacy, passion, and commitment, the three components of a triangular theory of love. They also provided information about their affective, motivational, and behavioral outcomes with regard to their instrument. The components of the theory of love significantly predicted all affective, motivational, and behavioral outcomes. Moreover, each component of the theory could be measured in a way that showed high internal-consistency reliability. However, the scales of intimacy, passion, and commitment showed less discriminant validity with respect to each other than we ideally would have hoped for.

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Love as Expansion of the Self

Cited by 32 publications

References 61 publications

Toward a triangular theory of love for one’s musical instrument

Toward a triangular theory of love for one’s musical instrument

Sex differences in predictors of relationship satisfaction: The effects of dyadic coping, love, sexual motivation and having children

Love of one’s musical instrument as a predictor of happiness and satisfaction with musical experience

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