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ROMANTIC LOVE SCALE

Reference:

Rubin, Z (1970). Measurement of romantic love. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 16,

265-273.

Description of Measure:

A 13-item measure of romantic love designed to capture three components of love: affiliative and

dependent need, a predisposition to help, and an orientation of exclusiveness and absorption. Each

item has a blank which respondents are directed to fill in with the name of their partner.

Respondents answer each item on a 9-point scale ranging from 1 (not at all true, disagree

completely) to 9 (definitely true, agree completely).

Abstracts of Selected Related Articles:

Fehr, B., & Russell, J. A. (1991). Concept of love viewed from a prototype perspective. Journal of

Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 425-438.

Even if superordinate concepts (such as "fruit," "vehicle," "sport") are prototypically

organized, basic-level concepts (such as "apple," "truck," "hockey") might be classically

defined in terms of individually necessary and jointly sufficient features. A series of 6 studies

examined 1 basic-level concept in the domain of emotion, "love," and found that it is better

understood from a prototype than a classical perspective. The natural language concept of

"love" has an internal structure and fuzzy borders: Maternal love, romantic love, affection,

love of work, self-love, infatuation, and other subtypes of love can be reliably ordered from

better to poorer examples of love. In turn, each subtype's goodness as an example of love

(prototypicality) was found to predict various indices of its cognitive processing. Implications

for a scientific definition and typology of love are discussed.

Sternberg, R. J. (1986). A triangular theory of love. Psychological Review, 93, 119-135.

Presents a triangular theory of love, which deals both with the nature of love and with loves

in different kinds of relationships. It is suggested that there are 3 components: (a) intimacy

encompassing the feelings of closeness, connectedness, and bondedness experienced in loving

relationships; (b) passion encompassing the drives that lead to romance, physical attraction,

and sexual consummation; and (c) decision/commitment encompassing, in the short term, the

decision that one loves another, and in the long term, the commitment to maintain that love.

The amount of love one experiences depends on the absolute strength of the 3 components,

and the kind of love one experiences depends on their strengths relative to each other. The

components interact with each other and with the actions that they produce and that

produce them so as to form a number of different kinds of loving experiences. The triangular

theory of love subsumes other theories and can account for a number of empirical findings in

the research literature, as well as for a number of experiences with which many are familiar

firsthand. It is proposed that the triangular theory provides a comprehensive basis for

understanding many aspects of the love that underlies close relationships.

Feeney, J. A., & Noller, P. (1990). Attachment style as a predictor of adult romantic relationships.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 281-291.

Questionnaire measures of attachment style, attachment history, beliefs about relationships,

self-esteem, limerence, loving, love addiction, and love styles were administered to 374

Self Report Measures for Love and Compassion Research: Different Types of Love

Romantic Love Scale