 Exploring the Similarity of Partners’ Love Styles and Their Relationships With Marital Satisfaction: A Dyadic ApproachMirian Agus, Luisa Puddu and Rosalba Raffagnino SAGE Open, 2021, vol. 11, issue 4, 21582440211040785 Abstract: In this paper, we report on the findings of our exploratory research investigating how the similarity or difference of the partners’ love styles could be related to dyadic and familial satisfaction. The empirical literature outlines how love styles are differently associated with various couple dimensions. While most studies employ an individual approach, we assessed whether the similarity of the prevalent love style in each couple was associated with greater dyadic satisfaction. In our sample, comprising 146 heterosexual couples (all married or cohabitating), no such association emerged. Storge and Pragma were the most prevalent love styles; moreover, there was a similar prevalence of the similarity in these two love styles between partners. Hence, the love styles similarity does not show a direct association with marital satisfaction. To establish whether there is some relationship between these variables, it would be useful for future research to investigate the impact of further individual and relational factors and of their interaction. Keywords: couple; love style; similarity; dyadic satisfaction; familial satisfaction (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:sagope:v:11:y:2021:i:4:p:21582440211040785 DOI: 10.1177/21582440211040785 Access Statistics for this article More articles in SAGE Open |
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