3-4 Study of love relationships and its related variables

This study investigated the love relationships and related variables including relationship adjustment, attachment style, sex role orientation, love attitude and intimacy competence of college students in Taiwan. The study surveyed 836 college students in different stages of romantic relationships.
College students' love relationships were assessed by three components including intimacy, passion and decision/commitment. The relationship adjustment were evaluated by global satisfaction, conflict/ambivalence and autonomous/symbiosis. The results revealed that college students with different attachment styles and different sex role orientations were significantly different in their love relationships and relationship adjustment.
The path model for love relationships of college students in seriously dating stageanalyzed by the Covariance Analysis of Linear Structure Equations with 281 students indicated that love relationships were influenced by sex role orientation and love attitudes. And the relationship adjustment were influenced by attachment styles and intimacy competence. In short, the androgynous college students have better love relationships andstudents with secure attachment style make better relationship adjustment. The love attitudes such as ludus, storage, agape, and the intimacy competence such as initiate/disclosure and emotional support played the roles of moderator variables in this casual model.
Suggestions were provided accordingly, including further developing a theoretical andevaluating system for the love relationships of college students in Taiwan.

Keywords
Love relationship, relationship adjustment, attachment style, sex role orienta- tion, love attitude, intimacy competence.

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