title: Picnics, flowers, and moonlight strolls: an exploration of routine love behaviors.
abstract: This study focused on the behavioral aspect of love, with a purpose of explicating routine behaviors associated with love. A 37-item Love Behaviors Scale was created to explicate those behaviors indicative of expressing love towards a romantic partner. Analysis of the resulting factor matrix yielded a reliable five-factor structure of the behaviors--Mutual Activity, Special Occasion, Offerings, Selfless, Sacrifices. Although both genders considered the behaviors to be love-related, women placed greater emphasis on the behaviors than men. Individuals who had never been in love also perceived the behaviors as love-related. Participants also indicated 13 additional behaviors which should be included in the Love Behaviors Scale.
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech Communication, University of Georgia, Athens 30602-1725, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lemieux
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D003380:Courtship; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007899:Leisure Activities; D008149:Love; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012016:Reference Values