Loving unconditionally: Demographic correlates of the Agapic love style
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Regan, Pamela C.
Abstract / Description
Although passionate or erotic love continues to receive the most attention from relationship scholars, there is a growing interest in a variety of love variously referred to as altruistic, compassionate, self-giving, or agapic love. Because this type of unconditional, other-oriented love appears to have important implications for the interpersonal dynamics and overall quality of close romantic relationships, there has been increased interest in delineating its correlates and possible causal antecedents. The goal of the present empirical investigation was to explore three potential demographic correlates of unconditional or agapic love – age, gender, and ethnicity. A large, multi-ethnic community sample of adult men and women (N = 697) individually completed the 7-item Agapic subscale of the Love Attitudes Scale (Hendrick & Hendrick, 1990). Although age was not associated with agapic love scores, a significant overall gender difference was obtained such that men scored higher than women. Ethnic differences also were found. Specifically, African American participants reported lower levels of agapic love than did Latino/a, Asian/Pacific Islander, and non-Hispanic White participants.
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Agapic love love styles compassionate love gender differences ethnic differencesPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2016-06-30
Journal title
Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships
Volume
10
Issue
1
Page numbers
28–35
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
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peerReviewed
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Regan, P. C. (2016). Loving unconditionally: Demographic correlates of the Agapic love style. Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships, 10(1), 28–35. https://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v10i1.199
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Regan, Pamela C.
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Date of first publication2016-06-30
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Abstract / DescriptionAlthough passionate or erotic love continues to receive the most attention from relationship scholars, there is a growing interest in a variety of love variously referred to as altruistic, compassionate, self-giving, or agapic love. Because this type of unconditional, other-oriented love appears to have important implications for the interpersonal dynamics and overall quality of close romantic relationships, there has been increased interest in delineating its correlates and possible causal antecedents. The goal of the present empirical investigation was to explore three potential demographic correlates of unconditional or agapic love – age, gender, and ethnicity. A large, multi-ethnic community sample of adult men and women (N = 697) individually completed the 7-item Agapic subscale of the Love Attitudes Scale (Hendrick & Hendrick, 1990). Although age was not associated with agapic love scores, a significant overall gender difference was obtained such that men scored higher than women. Ethnic differences also were found. Specifically, African American participants reported lower levels of agapic love than did Latino/a, Asian/Pacific Islander, and non-Hispanic White participants.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationRegan, P. C. (2016). Loving unconditionally: Demographic correlates of the Agapic love style. Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships, 10(1), 28–35. https://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v10i1.199en_US
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ISSN1981-6472
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1738
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.2104
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v10i1.199
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Keyword(s)Agapic loveen_US
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Keyword(s)love stylesen_US
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Keyword(s)compassionate loveen_US
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Keyword(s)gender differencesen_US
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Keyword(s)ethnic differencesen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleLoving unconditionally: Demographic correlates of the Agapic love styleen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue1
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Journal titleInterpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships
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Page numbers28–35
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Volume10
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