In this study, we performed a first assessment of the construct validity of a theory and measure of love for music students’ musical instruments. In all, 288 undergraduates at a large and selective Northeastern university in the United States completed measures of their love of their musical instrument with respect to intimacy, passion, and commitment, the three components of a triangular theory of love. They also provided information about their affective, motivational, and behavioral outcomes with regard to their instrument. The components of the theory of love significantly predicted all affective, motivational, and behavioral outcomes. Moreover, each component of the theory could be measured in a way that showed high internal-consistency reliability. However, the scales of intimacy, passion, and commitment showed less discriminant validity with respect to each other than we ideally would have hoped for.

在这项研究中，我们对音乐学生乐器的理论和测量方法的结构效度进行了首次评估。总共有 288 名美国东北大学的本科生完成了他们对乐器的爱的测量，包括亲密、激情和承诺，这是爱的三角理论的三个组成部分。他们还提供了有关他们使用乐器的情感、动机和行为结果的信息。爱理论的组成部分显着预测了所有的情感、动机和行为结果。此外，该理论的每个组成部分都可以以显示出高内部一致性可靠性的方式进行测量。然而，亲密、激情、