Abstract
Love styles are attitudes towards romantic relationships that are related to sexual motivation, sociosexuality, mate value, and relationship status. In the present study, the Short Love Attitude Scale (LAS-SF) was adapted to Hungarian, and the original factor structure was replicated with a Hungarian sample of 800 participants (439 females, mean age = 38.6 years). The results show that the Hungarian LAS-SF is a reliable and valid measure, which enables cross-cultural comparisons. Differences in love styles were revealed across sexes and relationship statuses. All men except singles scored relatively high on Eros, while the highest Eros scores among women were obtained for those in a committed relationship. Women and men preferred the same strategy (Ludus) to achieve short-term relationship goals.
Highlights
Love AttitudesIn an earlier work, Lee (1973) used the analogy of a colour wheel to illustrate his typology of love
The third aim of our study is to find a relationship between love styles and age, and between love styles and relationship status
The results of the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and the reliability analysis show that the Love Attitudes Scale (LAS)-HSF is a reliable measure, whose factor structure is identical with that of the original version (P1)
Summary
Love AttitudesIn an earlier work, Lee (1973) used the analogy of a colour wheel to illustrate his typology of love. The model defines six different love types, which are used to describe individual differences in love (e.g., Raffagnino and Puddu 2018) This typology provides a relatively complex and comprehensive classification, which is consistent with everyday experience and language (Hendrick and Hendrick 2006). A short version of the LAS was developed subsequently, whose 24 items showed better psychometric properties than the original full version (Hendrick and Dicke 1998). This means that increased inter-item correlations (compare to the 7-item subscales) maintained the strength of the alphas, despite subscale length was reduce from seven to four items
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