Passionate love and sexual desire: A podcast

From Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

 

Relationship Matters Podcast Number 9 “Passionate Love”: Legendary Elaine Hatfield at the University of Hawaii at Manoa talks about passionate love and sexual desire.

 

 

Love, romantic obsession and friendship: key measuring factors in romantic relationships

Measuring love in romantic relationships: A meta-analysis

From Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Love is all around us, the experience of love is centrally important to close relationships. Because the concept of love can mean different things across different types of relationships (e.g. friends, children, romantic relationships), researchers have worked at developing models that allow differentiation between varying experiences of love. This study identifies the key factors underlying the most popular measures of love in use today through meta-analytic factor analysis. Findings reveal that general love, romantic obsession, and practical friendship are important measures in romantic relationships. Love was positively and obsession was negatively associated with relationship satisfaction and length. The paper concludes by pointing towards the need for increased measurement methods in the field of love research.