THE MEDIATING ROLES OF TRIANGULAR LOVE COMPONENTS IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP BELIEFS AND MARRIAGE ATTITUDES

Authors : Müzeyyen SOYER, Önder SÜNBÜL

Pages : 185-202

Doi:10.48166/ejaes.1299809

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Publication Date : 2023-06-25

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This study examined the mediating roles of triangular love components insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(intimacy, passion, and commitment); in the relationship between university students’ romantic relationship beliefs and marriage attitudes. The research sample consisted of 376 undergraduate students, 289 of whom were female and 87 were male, studying at a public university. In addition to the Personal Information Form, four measurement tools, namely the Inönü Marriage Attitude Scale, the Sternberg Triangular Love Scale insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(STLS and STLS-M forms);, and the Romantic Relationship Beliefs Scale, were employed in this study. According to the resultant findings, of the triangular love components, intimacy had a partial mediating role, while passion and commitment had full mediating roles in the relationship between romantic relationship beliefs and marriage attitudes. All the adjustments regarding the collected data were conducted in the R programming environment. The findings were discussed based on the existing literature, followed by suggestions for various practices in the field and future studies.
Keywords : marriage attitudes, romantic relationship beliefs, triangular love