A brief history of social scientists’ attempts to measure passionate love

Hatfield, Elaine; Bensman, Lisamarie; Rapson, Richard L.

doi:10.1177/0265407511431055

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“…The JLS was designed to assess cognitive, emotional and behavioral signs of passionate love 8,10 . Cognitive components consist of [1] intrusive thought or concern for the partner; [2] idealization of the other or the relationship; and [3] desire to get to know each other and be known by him/her.…”

Section: Juvenile Love Scale (Jls)mentioning

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Translation, cultural adaptation, and content validity index of the Juvenile Love Scale to the Brazilian context

Soares

Paula

Malloy-Diniz

et al. 2017

Arch. Clin. Psychiatry (São Paulo)

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Background: Passionate love involves physiological, emotional, and cognitive features that greatly changes behavior. This phenomenon seems universal or near universal. Even other animal species choose partners. An intense state of passionate love is associated with activity in dopamine pathways of the brain 'reward system' , and recently has been regarded as a 'natural addiction' . Instruments or tools to evaluate romantic love during childhood is still scarce. Objective: To perform the translation and cultural adaptation of the Juvenile Love Scale (JLS) for use in the Brazilian context targeted for adolescents between 14 and 18 years old. Methods: The translation and cultural adaptation of JLS followed international recommendations, and its content validity was analyzed by a panel of experts in different areas of knowledge. Results: The final version of the JLS for use in the Brazilian context showed high content validity (> 90%). Discussion: To our knowledge, this is the first scale for measuring romantic or passionate love in adolescents adapted to the Brazilian context. This instrument is a significant contribution to the study of the dimensions of love, as well as to understand the impact of love on the psychiatric phenomena that pervade life in this stage of development.

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Section: Juvenile Love Scale (Jls)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hatfield et al 8 found 33 instruments measuring romantic love over the last 70 years approximately. These measures were elaborated by different areas of expertise such as Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, Medicine, Biology and Neurosciences.…”

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confidence: 99%

Translation, cultural adaptation, and content validity index of the Juvenile Love Scale to the Brazilian context

Soares

Paula

Malloy-Diniz

et al. 2017

Arch. Clin. Psychiatry (São Paulo)

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“…In conclusion, Marks (1994, p. 854) scholars with an interest in social relationships may draw benefits from a sociological approach that locates the understanding and experience of human relationships historically and socially. For example, Hatfield, Bensman, & Rapson (2012) demonstrate how the concept of passionate love has occupied psychologists and other social scientists for decades, typically with a view to measuring it. In reviewing this field of activity, Hatfield et al (2012) demonstrate how scholars' conceptions of the nature of love have changed over the years, and how historical and scientific changes about love are interconnected, reflected in the various scales designed to measure passionate love.…”

Section: Workplace Friendships As Social Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, Hatfield, Bensman, & Rapson (2012) demonstrate how the concept of passionate love has occupied psychologists and other social scientists for decades, typically with a view to measuring it. In reviewing this field of activity, Hatfield et al (2012) demonstrate how scholars' conceptions of the nature of love have changed over the years, and how historical and scientific changes about love are interconnected, reflected in the various scales designed to measure passionate love. Such research findings are in tune with a sociology of friendship that alerts us to how ongoing historical and social change impacts on relationships, but also how such changes shape bodies of knowledge on relationships generated within different academic disciplines using specific research techniques and theories.…”

Section: Workplace Friendships As Social Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Researching workplace friendships

Rumens

2016

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Although organizational research on workplace friendships is well established, it has been criticized for its predominately postpositivistic outlook, which largely focuses on how workplace friendships can be linked to improving organizational outcomes such as efficiency and performance. As a consequence, other aspects of the lived experiences of work and friendship are obscured, in particular how these friendships are important in their own right and how they function as social and personal relationships. Supplementing postpositivistic research on workplace friendships, this article shows how researchers can derive theoretical insights from a “sociology of friendship.” The main contribution of this article relates to the development of a sociology of workplace friendship that understands the porous and mutable nature of these relationships and considers the social and personal factors that influence their role, place and meaning in the workplace. As such, three sociological frames of analysis are elaborated that encourage researchers to examine friendships at work as a set of contextually contingent social practices and as historically patterned social and personal relationships. This article articulates an agenda of research to inspire and guide researchers using these frames, one potential outcome of which is generating much needed scholarship that explores how workplace friendships contribute to human flourishing.

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“…(Case, 1839, cited in Taylor & Lasch, 1963 Elsewhere, the idea of a kindred spirit is appealed to as a way to illustrate the closeness and similarity of the artistic relationship between the poet William Cullen Bryant and the poet Thomas Cole (Ringe, 1954). These notions of similarity, sharedness, friendship are also found in philosophical and theoretical understandings of love -a topic of research which has dramatically broadened and deepened more recently to emphasize its multi-faceted appearance (Hatfield et al, 2012). It is to these we now turn in the hope of further shedding light on this hard-to-grasp phenomenon of kindred spirit connection.…”

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Understanding the Experience of Discovering a Kindred Spirit Connection: A Phenomenological Study

Finlay

Eatough

2012

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Preliminary existential-hermeneutic phenomenological analysis of data based on 24 protocols, and our own reflexive discussion, reveals how "kindred spirit connections" manifest in myriad elusive, evocative ways. These special connections are experienced variously from briefly felt moments of friendship to enduringly profound body-soul love connections. This paper explicates five intertwined dimensions: shared bonding; the mutual exchange and affirmation of fellowship; the destined meeting or relationship; immediate bodily-felt attraction; and the pervasive presence of love. A wide ranging literature around the theme of love is outlined and the concept of kindred spirit is briefly applied to the psychotherapy practice context.

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A brief history of social scientists’ attempts to measure passionate love

Cited by 73 publications

References 70 publications

Translation, cultural adaptation, and content validity index of the Juvenile Love Scale to the Brazilian context

Translation, cultural adaptation, and content validity index of the Juvenile Love Scale to the Brazilian context

Researching workplace friendships

Understanding the Experience of Discovering a Kindred Spirit Connection: A Phenomenological Study

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