Close Relationships Research: A Resource for Couple and Family Therapists

Hendrick, Susan S.

doi:10.1111/j.1752-0606.2004.tb01219.x

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“…These taxonomies have in common that they discern different shapes love can take, such as liking, passionate love and companionate love. These researchers all agree that these styles (Hendrick, 2004;Lee, 1973), stories (Sternberg, 1995) or ways (Marston et al, 1998) can be combined in infinite ways so as to reconstruct the subjective experience of love. However, Watts and Stenner (2005) suggest that taxonomies cannot capture the holistic quality of the experience of love.…”

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‘I love you’. How to understand love in couple therapy? Exploring love in context

Migerode

Hooghe

2011

Journal of Family Therapy

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Acknowledging the place of love in couple therapy requires therapists to reflect upon what love means to them. We propose that love defines the couple relationship and in turn the relationship defines love. In this article we explore and focus on our conceptualization of love and its influence on couple therapy. Exploring love in the context of the phrase ‘I love you’ leads us to consider built‐in contradictions. These contradictions can be contextualized and understood in a relational dialectic framework. Implications for therapy are explored and briefly illustrated in a case vignette.

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‘I love you’. How to understand love in couple therapy? Exploring love in context

Migerode

Hooghe

2011

Journal of Family Therapy

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“…Further in-depth analyses may even have interesting implications on the praxis, both in terms of assessment and in terms of preventive action. Hendrick [59] affirms the importance of an assessment of love styles in patients dealing with relationship issues. Knowledge of love styles, as asserted by Ortalda and Clapetto [40], may allow an identification of the specific love style related to well-being or to unease or struggle, thus aiding the diagnostic phase in a clinical intervention.…”

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Love Styles in Couple Relationships: A Literature Review

Raffagnino¹,

Puddu²

2018

JSS

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Love is a fundamental emotion in people's lives, and also plays a vital role in human health. It is a multifaceted feeling, with different expressions in different life contexts. Its polysemy has been widely identified and analysed upon observing how the different styles of experiencing love have different effects on personal and relational health. This article presents a review of literature regarding the influence of the various love styles-identified by Lee [1]-on quality and duration of a love relationship, and how they may be predictors for the health and well-being of partners. Upon analysis of the various reviewed articles, it is recorded that the various love types and styles have different effects on various levels of quality and duration of the relationship between two people. On the basis of the results observed, the authors suggest numerous research priorities in order to facilitate the implementation of knowledge through actions targeted towards relational health and well-being.

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“…Eine Erklärung der verschiedenen Komponenten der Liebe kann ein wichtiger Schritt sein, um Paaren zu helfen, ihre Probleme zu bewältigen oder auch zu lösen (Moss/Schwebel 1993) sowie positive Beschreibungen für ihre Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten zu finden (Hendrick 2004). Gewisse Verhaltensweisen können auf den zugrundeliegenden Liebesstil zurückgeführt und müssen nicht als Angriff oder mangelnde Liebe aufgefasst werden.…”

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“…Das Bedürfnis nach Abwechslung und Neuem müsste dann in anderen Bereichen wie Sport, Hobbies, etc. erfüllt werden (Hendrick 2004).…”

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Dyadisches Coping und Partnerschaftszufriedenheit bei verschiedenen Liebesstilen

Gagliardi¹,

Bodenmann

Heinrichs³

2015

JFamRes

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In the last forty years, many attempts were made to approach the complexity of “love” as a research topic. In 1973, Lee developed a typology of six different love styles: Eros (passionate love), Ludus (game-playing love), Storge (friendship love), Pragma (logical, “shopping list” love), Mania (possessive, dependent love) and Agape (all-giving, selfless love). The present study examines the association between love styles and dyadic coping. 154 couples were assessed on a variety of relationship measures. Our findings indicated that Eros is most strongly associated with dyadic coping and predictive both for the positive and for the negative dyadic coping. For men Agape turned out to be predictive for the positive dyadic coping and Pragma appeared as a predictor for the negative dyadic coping. Only for women, Ludus proved to be predictive for negative dyadic coping and Pragma turned out to be predictive for positive dyadic coping. Implications for counselling, couple therapy and future research are being discussed. Zusammenfassung In den letzten vierzig Jahren wurden viele Versuche unternommen, sich der Komplexität des Forschungsgegenstandes „Liebe“ anzunähern. Lee entwickelte 1973 ein Klassifikationssystem und unterschied sechs Liebesstile: Eros (die romantische Liebe), Ludus (die spielerische Liebe), Storge (die freundschaftliche Liebe), Mania (die besitzergreifende Liebe), Pragma (die pragmatische Liebe) und Agape (die altruistische Liebe). In dieser Studie wurde der Zusammenhang zwischen Liebesstilen und der gemeinsamen Stressbewältigung analysiert. 154 Paare wurden zu ihrer Partnerschaft befragt. Die Resultate zeigten, dass Eros am stärksten mit dem dyadischen Coping assoziiert ist und prädiktiv sowohl für das positive als auch für das negative dyadische Coping ist. Bei den Männern erwies sich zudem Agape prädiktiv für das positive dyadische Coping und Pragma als Prädiktor für das negative dyadische Coping, während sich einzig bei den Frauen Ludus prädiktiv für das negative dyadische Coping und Pragma prädiktiv für das positive dyadische Coping erwies. Implikationen für die Beratung, Paartherapie und zukünftige Forschung werden diskutiert.

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Close Relationships Research: A Resource for Couple and Family Therapists

Cited by 18 publications

References 50 publications

‘I love you’. How to understand love in couple therapy? Exploring love in context

‘I love you’. How to understand love in couple therapy? Exploring love in context

Love Styles in Couple Relationships: A Literature Review

Dyadisches Coping und Partnerschaftszufriedenheit bei verschiedenen Liebesstilen

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