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Correlates of Love Across Relationship Types and Cultural Regions

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A cross-cultural study of intimate relationships explored correlates of love around the world. Structural Equation Modeling found similar factors associated with love across nine cultural regions, as well as across eight relationship types defined by men and women, married or unmarried, in opposite-sex or same-sex relationships. The correlates are similar in spite of any variations in mean levels of the factors. The correlates occur in the following categories: motivation, partner suitability, intimacy dimensions, exchange processes, conflict resolution, and well-being. The findings have implications for future research, self-reflection, and couples counseling.

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Collaborators

The following collaborators translated the questionnaire, recruited participants, or did both, which were crucial in conducting the study on which this chapter is based. Collaborators also made comments on chapter drafts.

Kâmile Bahar Aydın, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Turkey; Maria Rivas Barros, Universidad del Magdalena, Colombia; Diana Boer, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany; Claudia C. Brumbaugh, Queens College, City University of New York, United States; José Enrique Canto y Rodriguez, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mexico; Rodrigo J. Carcedo, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain; Elena Chebotareva, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia; Sylvia Xiaohua Chen, and Algae K. Y. Au, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China; Artemis Z. Giotsa, University of Ioannina, Greece; Victoria V. Ilchenko North Ossetian State University, Vladikavkaz, Russia; Valery L. Sitnikov, Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg, Russia; Elena Sinelnikova, Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University, Russia; Loredana Ivan, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA), Bucharest, Romania; Ilona Kajokiene, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania; Rukhsana Kausar, Vice Chancellor, Government College Women University, Sialkot, Pakistan; and Shehnaz Bano, University of the Punjab, Pakistan; Mie Kito, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan; Karolina Kuryś-Szyncel and Barbara Jankowiak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland; Zsuzsa F. Lassú, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary; Olufemi A. Lawal, Lagos State University, Nigeria; Xiaomin Li, University of Arizona, United States; Guillermo Macbeth and Eugenia Razumiejczyk, National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET) and Pontific Catholic University of Argentina (UCA); Silvia Mari, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy; Takafumi Sawaumi, Ryutsu Keizai University, Japan; and Tsutomu Inagaki (Fujii), Kagoshima University, Japan; Jenny Lukito Setiawan, Universitas Ciputra Surabaya, Indonesia; and Immanuel Yosua, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia; Vered Shenaar-Golan and Ofra Walter, Tel Hai Academic College, Israel; Suhas Shetgovekar, Indira Gandhi National Open University, India; Mein-Woei Suen, Asia University/Chung Shan Medical University, Taiwan; Cláudio V. Torres, University of Brasília, Brazil.

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    Charles T. Hill

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  1. Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Claude-Hélène Mayer

  2. Institut für therapeutische Kommunikation und Sprachgebrauch, Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

    Claude-Hélène Mayer

  3. Global Institute for Transcultural Research, Römerberg, Germany

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Hill, C.T., Collaborators. (2021). Correlates of Love Across Relationship Types and Cultural Regions. In: Mayer, CH., Vanderheiden, E. (eds) International Handbook of Love. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45996-3_29

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