Love for a Marriage Story: The Association Between Love and Marital Satisfaction in Middle Adulthood

Gyesook, Yoo; Joo, Susanna

doi:10.1007/s10826-021-02055-6

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“…The important role of love relationships for a person's health and well-being should also be mentioned (Soares et al, 2020, Oravecz et al, 2020, Gómez-López et al, 2019. Among the studies, the perception of love as an important element of the relationship, which strengthen the quality of the marriage and the feeling of satisfaction with it was also confirmed (Yoo and Joo, 2022, Salayani et al, 2020, Bakhtiari et al, 2019. Although love has a universal character, approximating its nature is a challenge for representatives of many fields.…”

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Polish adaptation of The Love Attitudes Scale: Short Form

Janeczek

2023

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The present study was conducted to determine the psychometric properties of the Polish version of The Love Attitudes Scale: Short Form (Hendrick et al., 1998). The scale is used to measure the love styles Eros, Ludus, Storge, Pragma, Mania, Agape based on John Lee's theory. The mean age of the subjects was 23 years (SD = 4.09). To determine the psychometric properties of the scale, an exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis (RMSEA = 0.0425; CFI = 0.938; TLI = 0.928) was performed. The reliability of the Polish version of The Love Attitudes Scale: Short Form was measured using Cronbach's Alpha (0.67 for the total tool, for subscales 0.61 to 0.81) and McDonald's Omega (0.69 for the total tool, for subscales 0.66 to 0.82). An external validity analysis was also conducted using the Attachment Styles Questionnaire, the Sexual Satisfaction Questionnaire, Rosenberg self-esteem scale and the Well-being Questionnaire. Based on the results, the Polish version of The Love Attitudes Scale: Short Form can be considered a tool with good psychometric properties recommended for use in scientific research.

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Polish adaptation of The Love Attitudes Scale: Short Form

Janeczek

2023

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“…In addition, divorces after more than 20 years of marriage accounted for the largest proportion at 37.2% of all divorces, and this rate is continuously increasing (Statistics Korea, n.d.). Moreover, as an alternative to divorce, the phenomenon of “Jolhon,” which refers to instances where middle‐aged couples live separately without being legally divorced, is increasing (Yoo & Joo, 2022).…”

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Patterns of marital conflict among middle‐aged couples and their effects on family satisfaction: A latent class analysis

Lee

Han

2023

Family Relations

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ObjectiveThrough this study, we aimed to categorize marital conflict in middle adulthood and examine its effect on family satisfaction.BackgroundMarital conflict is detrimental to family satisfaction in the middle age. Despite the increasing dissolution of marriage and the intensification of marital conflict among middle‐aged couples, little research has examined this issue.MethodThis study used data from the 2018 Korean Retirement and Income Study (KreIS). A total of 1,581 married people aged between 40 and 65 years were analyzed. We conducted latent class analysis (LCA) to categorize the sample and performed multiple regression analysis to verify the effect of various marital conflict types on family satisfaction.ResultsThree latent classes of marital conflict were identified using the LCA: the lifestyle conflict (LC), the infrequent conflict (IC), and the financial conflict (FC) group. Examining family satisfaction by group revealed that there was no significant difference between IC and FC, whereas LC experienced significantly lower family satisfaction.ConclusionsThis study suggested the need for a new approach to resolving marital conflict for middle‐aged couples, especially according to the conflict aspect.

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“…On the other hand, individual differences, such as gender, age, and cultural modernization, can impact the experience of romantic love ( Feybesse and Hatfield, 2019 ; Sorokowski et al, 2023 ). The significance of relationship satisfaction, effective communication, and mutual support ( Yoo and Joo, 2021 ), indicates that romantic love is a multifaceted phenomenon involving multiple constituents, social and individual factors ( de Munck et al, 2016 ).…”

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What’s love got to do with jealousy?

Fernandez,

Barbato,

Cordero

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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Romantic love and jealousy seem antagonistic, but the expression of both emotions have evolutionary functions that can go in the same direction of maintaining a relationship. Considering natural selection designed adaptations to solve the problems surrounding reproduction, then love and romantic jealousy are emotions aimed at staying cooperative for a period of time, where love solves the adaptive challenges of promoting pair bonding, cooperation, and protecting offspring; and jealousy is triggered by a threat or the loss of a valuable cooperative relationship, either on behalf of descendants in need of resources, or a close romantic bond. Consequently, understanding love and romantic jealousy points in the same adaptive functional domain of protecting a romantic pair bond. Specifically, love can be comprehended in two different ways and in regard to jealousy. First, conceiving love as the attachment to significant others one develops throughout lifetime, and secondly, it contemplates affective dependence. Results from a sample of single and committed individuals (n = 332) show the predicted positive correlation between attachment and jealousy as stable traits, consistent with previous literature. In addition, there is a non-significant and low correlation, respectively, between attachment and love as a measure of dependence. Furthermore, in the single participants group, jealousy was associated with love. The discussion emphasizes the need for expanding a functional account of love and jealousy as complementary emotions of our human affective endowment. Finally, it would be informative to study attachment as a relational trait and love as a specific affection for a romantic partner that could be manipulated to elucidate the functional design of jealousy.

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Love for a Marriage Story: The Association Between Love and Marital Satisfaction in Middle Adulthood

Cited by 6 publications

References 48 publications

Polish adaptation of The Love Attitudes Scale: Short Form

Polish adaptation of The Love Attitudes Scale: Short Form

Patterns of marital conflict among middle‐aged couples and their effects on family satisfaction: A latent class analysis

What’s love got to do with jealousy?

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