Abstract
Recently a compassionate love scale was developed to assess compassionate love or altruistic love for different targets (e.g., romantic partner, close others and all the humanity; Sprecher & Fehr, 2005). This study was conducted to examine the psychometric properties of the Compassionate Love Scale in the Portuguese context. In addition, it has been examined how compassionate love for a romantic partner was related to socio-demographic variables, love styles, and subjective well-being. Two hundred and eighty one men and women participated (42% of women) with a mean age of 21.89. All participants were currently in a romantic relationship. The Compassionate Love Scale shows satisfactory psychometric properties. Furthermore, our predictions were supported, as those who experience high levels of compassionate love for a romantic partner are more likely to report Eros and altruistic love (Agape), and subjective well-being.
Highlights
Variables and Compassionate LoveA number of specific questions pertaining to the participants’ background were included to assess the potential suppositions about how compassionate love functions
The primary aim of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Compassionate Love Scale (CLS) for a romantic partner
Young adults completed the CLS with respect to a specific close other: a dating partner
Summary
A number of specific questions pertaining to the participants’ background were included to assess the potential suppositions about how compassionate love functions. The approach that was used treated each background variable as an independent variable, and using participants’ total scores on compassionate love scale as a dependent variable. One-way analyses of variance were performed on the data. The F ratio for each one-way analysis is shown at the top of the relevant column of means. There were statistically significant gender differences for men (M = 5.12, SD = 1.27) or for women (M= 5.38, SD = .91, [F(1, 270)= 4.28, p < .05, η2 =.016)]. Men (n = 115) and women (n = 156) did differ on compassionate love
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