To study whether gender differences and love styles affect people’s decision in selecting potential partners, Group2 conducted an online survey with 87 participants, which are the students in CUHK. The first part of the survey is the love attitude scales test, which is used to differentiate 6 types of the love styles . Participants needed to rate 42 love items in a 5-point numerical scales. Then participants needed to rate 18 mate selection criteria in a 4-point numerical scales in the second part of the survey, which is used to measure the dependent variables: the mate selection preferences.
There are some weaknesses that we cannot overlook. Firstly, the external validity of this research is low because Group2 only collected data from the CUHK students, which may not be generalize to people in all age range, but unlike what Group2 has presented, age difference indeed affect the love styles (Shulman & Scharf, 2000). The second weakness is the subject bias. Participants may try to be a good subject and conform to the predicted results. They may assume that Group2 are studying the mate selection preferences of different genders and answer the questions according to the predicted results. Moreover, the participants may have evaluation apprehension too. They may think that they need to be selfness and be passionate to their future partners so as not to be valued negatively. Then they may behave as an ideal person they think and answer the questions in a way to be valued as Eros and Agape love styles.
To tackle the first weakness, Group2 can have a sampling with a greater variety of ages so that the survey can show the general trend of the love style of the society across different gender. However, if there is a significant shift of mate selection preference across different ages. It is better to change the age difference as an IV to better reflect the trend. If we analysis the data without manipulate the age difference, then the data may not show any significant differences across different age groups because the data of each group will add noises to each other.
Without doubt, as suggested by Group2, not only age difference, there are also other kind of confounds (e.g. love history, generations, etc.) which may covary with IVs and obviously we cannot change all the items into IVs since it is very complicated. Therefore, to handle the extra noises caused by these EVs, it is recommended to increase the sample size of the survey so as to increase the statistical power.
Young love , a thrilling time for many . A time in where blinded young-lings cross a field unknown . A field in which one must undergo challenges and temptations . Here we have a young girl that encounters a young man , a typical boy meets girl scenarios , So it would seem . The desire to be loved can drive a person to do the craziest of things ; we are all walking proof of that . As young children one learns to express emotion through every gesture and every facial expression , through that process one realizes ones self hatred with rejection . Living in a world in which we strive to be accepted and crave to be desired . In society each gender faces different experiences ; as a man one expects a provider , a leader , a hunter and as a women
Dating back to the early 1900’s and all the way through to the present, romantic relationships have been viewed differently. From strict unwritten dating regulations to not having regulations at all, recent generations have become more liberated in making their own decisions. The progressing times have made us become a more accepting society and have caused a decrease in the strong practice of religion and class. Even though differences such as religion and class in relationships were more than an issue they were not always a complete deterrence.
In the LGBT community, they develop intimate relationships in the same stages as heterosexual couples however they resolve conflicts more positively. Due to them being in a relationship with the same-sex partner, they approach roles in a relationship and marriage using egalitarianism. We all give and receive love differently. Knox & Schacht discuss the different types of loves styles a person’s desires from their relationships such as ludic, pragma, eros, mania, storge, and agape. These different love styles also express how lovers can understand and relate to one
To answer this question, I conducted a simple experiment with different variable. The first variable is age. The second is location. I interviewed sixteen people, (eight women and eight men) and asked them the same questions. Four males and females are from the Binghamton area, and four males and females are from the Long Island area.
It is tempting to believe that when couples say that they are “in love,” they view their love in the same way –that they have successfully “defined their relationship.” Love after all, is the only legitimate reason for marriage in western society and one should at least be on the same page before entering into a perpetual union (Henslin 468). Sociologists like to say that romantic love is composed of two components: sexual attraction (a biological response) and idealization of the other (a societal created response that promotes a bond between two individuals) (Henslin 468). However this is a very simple definition of love because it turns out that romantic love is in the eye of the beholder. Researchers of heterosexual love have ...
...that I encountered in collecting data was when I was observing. Since I had no contact with the subjects, I simply made the assumption that they were picking the movie for themselves to watch. However, the person could have been renting the movie for someone else. Another limitation occurred through the survey. I had two different choices for the categories of the movies. One choice was action/adventure and the other was romance/romantic comedy. Romantic comedy and true romance movies vary in multiple ways and I should not have categorized them as one type of movie. This could have swayed my results a little. In doing this research again, I would have three categories; one action, one comedy, and one romance. I also could have interviewed a female. I only interviewed a male and therefore, I only gained detailed information from one gender’s perspective.
In order to distinguish the difference between loving and liking, questionnaire should be undergone. Firstly, the love-scale should be set which referred to the association response from the questionnaire. Some questionnaire items had to be provided according to the attitude of the respondents toward the target person. The questionnaire represented the personal visions of two panels of students and faculty about the ideas of love and like. It contained theoretical thinking and pointed to the three elements of love mentioned in paragraph one. The questionnaire items included two categories, like and love and questionnaires were distributed to 158 dating couples at the University of Michigan. The results found that love and like were more strongly related among males than females and it gave some proofs for the suggestion that it was more illustrious for women to differentiate the two emotions than men. The results also showed that women like their male friends more than other side like them. Moreover, women were prone to say love to same-sex friends more than men and those might be some kinds of the gender differe...
Therefore, during the heels of respondents, attention was paid not to economic indicators of prosperity, but to the fact that all respondents differed from each other by such indicators as age, gender, education, ethnicity, religion.
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While courtly love may seem like a fixation of the ancient past, the model courtship, in which two young people fall in love and e...
There were seven individuals that I had interviewed, which consist of four females and three males. Subject A is an 18-year-old single female who came from Hispanic origin. Subject B is a 20-year-old single Caucasian male. Subject C is a 23-year-old single mother with a five-year old son with a Palauan origin. Subject D is a 19-year-old single Filipino female. Subject E is a 19-year-old Filipino female who is currently in a long-term relationship. Subject F is a 20-year-old single Japanese male who has never been in a relationship. Lastly, subject G is a 20-year-old previous engaged Caucasian male. All participants are heterosexual, and have been born and raised in the United Sates.
This survey took place at Lenox Square Mall in Atlanta, Ga. First, I asked the basic questions of their age, sex, level of education and their ethnicity. These were asked due to statistic purposes. The age groups consisted of 15-21, 25-33, 46-61 and 70+. The sex would either be male or female, yet I did run into a transgender. Education levels were either high school or college, with one exception to a dropout. Most of the ethnicities were black or white with a few foreign exceptions. Next, I would ask each question expecting a yes or no as an answer. For question number one, the question was “Are you currently in a relationship?” Out of the five people I asked, three of the five said yes. Two were of younger age, 15 and 21, and the other was fifty years old. The 21 and 50 year old both had a college education. As far as race and sex goes, there were two whites, female and male, and one Hispanic male. Question number two consisted of “Do you believe in love?” Majority of the people I asked said no. It was a coincidence that the people, who said no, were all females. Two of them were black and one was white. The two black females have a college education while the white female was a high school dropout. The two males that said yes were of the ages 20 and 59, the 20 year old was of Asian decent and the other male was a Hispanic. “Do you believe in lust?” was the third question. Out of the same five people,
The study takes into account the numerous negative effects both on the "Would be Lover," and the "Rejector"(p.377). The negative effects on the "Would be Lover" include, Heartbreak, Anger, and Humiliation, whereas the effects on the "Rejector" also include Anger but also Guilt and Scriptlessness. Unrequited love deals with a social relationship between two people many if not all of the eight overarching themes in social psychology are observable in the behavior of the couples.
Young people more and more often ask themselves what is better: be in a relationship or being single. Nowadays, being in a relationship is too difficult for young people. They are too busy to bother with building relationships – they have to study and often work at the same time. But is a relationship such a big burden as they seem? There are some advantages and also disadvantages of being in relationship, but being alone is not a good solution either. Now, I would like to compare and contrast those two statements.
Marriage is a lifetime engagement and traditions in Eastern cultures. Marriages not only do couples get together and take vows to live together, but their families build a lifelong bond. On the other hand, in Western society arranged marriages are not common in the daily life; that is, the point of love is meant to be found, not arranged. In the West, love is to find that someone whereby the couples will spend the rest of their life together. According to Hai, Thu a Vietnamese author, arranged marriages are the method whereby the parents find someone for that person; they are deciding if he or she is fit for the position. Some people could not imagine that Americans who would appreciate the idea of being set together with someone they do not know. To solve this idea and lowering the divorce rate, scientists have expanded the knowledge of personality and relationships. The author brings that various tools have been built to help men and women identify a perfect marriage spouse.