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Love Styles and Desire for Closeness in Romantic Relationships

2009; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 105; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2466/pr0.105.1.191-197

1558-691X

Alan K. Goodboy, Melanie Booth‐Butterfield,

Marriage and Sexual Relationships

This study investigated differences in love styles (i.e., eros, ludus, storge, pragma, agape, mania) associated with the romantic desire for closeness. Participants were 197 undergraduate students (M age = 19.8 yr., SD = 1.9; 92 men, 104 women) currently in a romantic relationship who completed a survey assessing their love styles and current desire for closeness with their partner (i.e., desired less closeness, the same level of closeness, or more closeness). Results indicated small significant differences in individuals' preferences for closeness with the eros and ludus love styles. Specifically, individuals who desired less closeness scored lower on eros love and higher on ludus love than partners who reported an ideal level of closeness or who desired more closeness.