Agape Love in Couple Relationships

被引:19
作者
Lin, Li-Wen [1 ]
Huddleston-Casas, Catherine A. [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Nebraska, Dept Family & Consumer Sci, Lincoln, NE 68588 USA
[2] Univ Nebraska, Dept Family & Consumer Sci, Lincoln, NE 68588 USA
关键词
Education; genders; love styles; relationship satisfaction; religiosity;
D O I
10.1300/J002v37n04_03
中图分类号
D669 [社会生活与社会问题]; C913 [社会生活与社会问题];
学科分类号
1204 ;
摘要
This study examined Agape love in couple relationships among randomly-sampled, telephone-surveyed adults currently involved in a romantic relationship. Agape refers to other-centered, altruistic love and is one of the six styles of love from John Lee's (1973) theory of love styles. The results showed that age, religiosity, and relationship satisfaction were positively correlated with Agape. People with more education reported lower Agape love scores than did less educated people. Men reported a higher level of Agape love than did women when controlling for age, education, religiosity and relationship satisfaction. (C) 2005 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码:29 / 48
页数:20
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