… Rubin (1970) who attempted to separate liking from loving … Rubin’s theory of love also
comprised compassionate love … the construct is supposed to measure romance, passion, intimacy, …

This chapter presents the complex concept of love as interpersonal attraction, including
componential and phenomenological dimensions. It defines attraction as a constellation of …

… romantic in love and relationships. Researchers use the Romantic Beliefs Scale to measure
… Thus, multiple studies from the 1960s to 1970s demonstrated that the closer we are to …

… Our single-item love measure (“To what extent do you love ____ [your partner] at this stage?…
ranging from –.70 to –.80; and convergent validity correlations with the multi-item satisfaction …

… ’ attitudes toward love, reveal the development law of their attitudes toward love, and identify
the influencing factors that lead to changes in their attitudes toward love. Descriptive and …

… with, a romantic partner. Thus, developing a reliable and valid measure of love experiences
is … One of the first love scales was developed by Rubin (1970), who differentiated liking from …

… in loving relationships refers to feelings of closeness, connectedness, and bondedness,
passion in loving relationships refers to the drives that lead to romance, … in loving relationships …

… to measure the intention of self-disclosure to romantic partners in the current study. The scale
… Romantic love was measured using the Love Scale established by Rubin (1970), which …

… romantic love, I recommend that we study the intrapersonal aspects of romantic love including
the intensity of love, … a component process model of romantic love, and that we distinguish …

… Participants’ satisfaction with their romantic relationship was measured through three
Likert-type items on a seven-point scale (1 = “very strongly disagree,” 7 = “very strongly agree”). …