TY - JOUR
T1 - Agape love in couple relationships
AU - Lin, Li Wen
AU - Huddleston-Casas, Catherine A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by a Layman Award of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to the first author and is a contribution of the University of Nebraska Agricultural Division, Lincoln, NE 68583, Journal Series No. 14324. The authors wish to thank Dr. Susan S. Hendrick and Dr. Clyde Hendrick for their valuable comments on a previous draft of this manuscript. The authors are also grateful to Dr. Kent M. Krause, Dr. Kent Eskridge and Dr. Yuh-Ling Shen for their helpful comments and statistical support.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - This study examined Agape love in couple relationships among randomly-sampled, telephone-surveyed adults currently involved in a romantic relationship. Agape refers to other-centered, altruistic love and is one of the six styles of love from John Lee's (1973) theory of love styles. The results showed that age, religiosity, and relationship satisfaction were positively correlated with Agape. People with more education reported lower Agape love scores than did less educated people. Men reported a higher level of Agape love than did women when controlling for age, education, religiosity and relationship satisfaction.
AB - This study examined Agape love in couple relationships among randomly-sampled, telephone-surveyed adults currently involved in a romantic relationship. Agape refers to other-centered, altruistic love and is one of the six styles of love from John Lee's (1973) theory of love styles. The results showed that age, religiosity, and relationship satisfaction were positively correlated with Agape. People with more education reported lower Agape love scores than did less educated people. Men reported a higher level of Agape love than did women when controlling for age, education, religiosity and relationship satisfaction.
KW - Education
KW - Genders
KW - Love styles
KW - Relationship satisfaction
KW - Religiosity
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U2 - 10.1300/J002v37n04_03
DO - 10.1300/J002v37n04_03
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:30644466146
SN - 0149-4929
VL - 37
SP - 29
EP - 48
JO - Marriage and Family Review
JF - Marriage and Family Review
IS - 4
ER -