title: Age and responses to the Love Attitudes Scale: consistency in structure, differences in scores.
abstract: Two separate issues concerning the relation between age and love are addressed in this article. The first issue is concerned with the age generalizability of the factor structure produced by responses to the Love Attitudes Scale. The data presented indicate that the factor structure of responses to the Love Attitudes Scale is highly similar in college-aged and middle-aged participants. The second issue concerns the relation between age and actual scores on the sub-scales of the Love Attitude Scales. The data indicate that age is related to responses on the Mania and Agape sub-scales, particularly for females. Collectively, these data suggest that general structural conceptions of love remain relatively constant into middle-age, but that there is a relation between age and some specific love styles.
authors.affiliation: Ohio State University at Newark, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Butler
authors.forename: W R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Walker
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Skowronski
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shannon
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D001290:Attitude; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008149:Love; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012044:Regression Analysis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards