Abstract
Adolescent romantic relationships are marked by feelings, thoughts, or behaviors within a relationship and have been found to be associated with intimacy, passion, commitment, sexual attitudes, trust, dependence and communication. The present research is based on studying the relationship between love and relationship satisfaction of adolescents. For this purpose, Sternberg’s Triangular Love Scale and Relationship Assessment Scale were administered on a sample of 100 adolescents (age=18-22 years). Correlation was applied which showed that a significant positive correlation exists between the types of love and relationship satisfaction. The t-test revealed that no gender differences were found in their types of love and in their relationship satisfaction. The thematic analysis done using a semi-structured interview revealed that gender differences exist between intimacy and passion of adolescents.
Highlights
The results show that for males i.e. r = .627 (Table 1) and for females i.e. r =. 605 (Table 2), a significant positive correlation exists between the variable intimacy and relationship satisfaction which is found to be significant at 0.01 level of significance
The present research found that a significant positive relationship exists between the components of love i.e. Intimacy, Passion, Commitment and Relationship Satisfaction
While assessing the gender differences in the components of love it was found that quantitatively no gender differences were found in intimacy, passion and commitment
Summary
Sternberg (1986) described Intimacy as “feelings of closeness, connectedness, and bondedness in loving relationships” (p. 119). Sternberg (1986) described Intimacy as “feelings of closeness, connectedness, and bondedness in loving relationships” According to Sternberg, intimacy is an “emotional investment in the relationship” Sternberg & Grajek, (1984) found that intimacy. Similar results were found in a study conducted on online relationships which found that trust, communication satisfaction and intimacy to be the strongest predictors of Relationship Satisfaction. Even in the married couples, it was found that tracking down of intimacy goals of the individual and the spouse, was found to be associated with marital satisfaction (Sanderson & Cantor, 2001). Support from the spouse and intimacy were found to be strong predictors of marital satisfaction (Patrick, Sells, Giordano, & Tollerud, 2007)
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