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Introduction

• Research Question
• Do university students prefer to date people with
  similar love styles to their own?

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Introduction (Cont)

• Hypothesis
• Individuals will prefer to date people with
  similar love styles to their own.

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Measures

• Participant Recruitment

• Survey 3 Questionnaires
• 1. Love Attitude Scale (Hendrick Hendrick,
  1986)
• 2. Partner Preference Questionnaire
• 3. General Information Survey

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Measures (Cont)

• Love Attitude Scale
• Six types of love styles (Lee, 1988)
• 1. Eros
• 2. Ludus
• 3. Storge
• 4. Pragma
• 5. Mania
• 6. Agape

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Analyzing the Data

• Determined individual love styles by
• Calculating the means of individual scores from
  the Love Attitudes Scale.
• The preferred partner love style by
• Taking the lowest score.

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Analyzing the Data (Cont)

• Generated a Correlation Matrix including
• Love Attitude Scale scores
• Partner Preference Questionnaire scores
• Romantic Involvement?
• Love Status?

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Analyzing the Data (Cont)

• Repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA)

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Analyzing the Data (Cont)

• Frequencies N41
• Age
• 16-24 yrs old 38/41 95
• 25-34 yrs old 2/41 5
• Romantically Involved
• 31/41 77.5
• In Love
• 28/41 70

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Results

• Correlation Matrix
• 4 significant findings
• Storge .489
• s(M2.3) p(M2.4)
• Pragma .409
• s(M3.1) p(M2.4)
• Mania 466
• s(M3.1) p(M4.2)
• Ludus .393
• s(M4.0) p(M4.5)

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Results (Cont)
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Results (Cont)
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Results (Cont)

• ANOVA
• Sig. main effect for self partner ratings
• F(1, 40) 8.63, p .005
• Group mean for self (2.82)
• Group mean for partner (3.04)
• Sig. Main effect for dif. Types of love styles
• F(5, 200) 59.36, p ?.001

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Results (Cont)

• ANOVA Cont
• Sig. Main effect for the interaction between self
  and partner ratings with the 6 dif. Love styles
• F(5, 200) 17.12, p ?.001
• This did not support our hypothesis!

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Results (Cont)
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Discussion

• Eros
• Majority of sample 39
• Extremely liked
• Ludus
• Least of sample 2.4
• Extremely disliked

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Discussion (Cont)

• Unusual Findings
• Storge Pragma
• 61 of sample had more than 1 preferred love
  style

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Discussion (Cont)

• Limitations
• Group Administration
• Small Sample Size
• College Students
• Spring Break!!
• Future
• Perceived Partner Survey
• Love Style changes over time

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Conclusion

• In this study our hypothesis that people prefer
  to date individuals with similar love styles as
  themselves was not supported.
• However, we did find that Eros is the most
  popular love style Ludus is the least!

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THE END!

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