A Study to Investigate The Impact Of Love Styles On The Level of Deception
Journal Title: INDIAN JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
Background: The causes of deception in a close relationship need to be zeroed upon to improve the quality of a relationship. The present study explores the causes of deception in close relationships based upon Alan Lee’s Love styles which describe three primary love styles namely Eros (physical love), Ludus (game playing love) and Storge (companionate love). Methods: The sample consisted of a group of 30 participants in the age group of 18 to 28 years and average number of years of relationship being two years one month. The Love Attitude scale was administered on them to ascertain their love styles and the Tim Cole scale measured their level of deception. Based upon their scores on the Love style scale the sample was grouped into three categories namely Eros, Ludus and Storge. Results: The highest mean for deception was for Eros style (24.5) followed by Ludus (21.2) and least being for Storge (14.8). An f test was calculated to find out whether the difference between the three means was statistically significant or not.The f value was found to be 6.47 which was found to be statistically significant at the .05 level of significance. In order to find out which of the two means were significantly different the Tukey HSD was calculated and the value was found to be 6.77. The difference between Eros and Storge contributed significantly to the difference. Conclusion: Thus, to conclude people having different love styles have different levels of deception impacting the relationship
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Rakhi Mehta, Akanksha Shinde, Apurva Ghadshi, Farhin Nathani, Nabila Damra
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