Abstract

Empirical research on love has focused mainly on the love of one person toward another. This study uses a new method to analyze estimates of one’s own and other’s love. Two hundred and twenty-six women estimated their own, their partner’s, and their parents’ overall love and various types of love. Factor analyses of self-reported estimates about love measured four factors: psychological closeness, sexual love, obsessive love, and interpersonal distance. Women estimated their partners as being significantly lower in psychological closeness and higher in sexual love. Daughters rated themselves higher in psychological closeness, sexual and obsessive love than their parents. In addition, the results showed that psychological closeness was the best overall predictor of one’s own and partner’s, and parent’s love.

摘要

关于爱的实证研究主要集中在一个人对另一个人的爱上。这项研究使用一种新方法来分析对自己和他人的爱的估计。226名女性估计自己，伴侣的以及父母的整体爱情和各种类型的爱情。自我报告的关于爱情的估计的因素分析测量了四个因素：心理亲密性，性爱，强迫性爱和人际距离。妇女估计他们的伴侣在心理上的亲近度明显较低，在性爱方面则较高。女儿对自己的心理亲密，性爱和强迫症的评价高于父母。此外，结果表明，心理亲密感是对自己，伴侣，父母的爱的最好的总体预测指标。