%0 Journal Article
%T Compassionate love for a romantic partner, love styles and subjective well-being
%A F¨¦lix Neto
%J Interpersona : An International Journal on Personal Relationships
%D 2012
%I 
%X Recently a compassionate love scale was developed to assess compassionate love or altruistic love for different targets (e.g., romantic partner, close others and all the humanity; Sprecher & Fehr, 2005). This study was conducted to examine the psychometric properties of the Compassionate Love Scale in the Portuguese context. In addition, it has been examined how compassionate love for a romantic partner was related to socio-demographic variables, love styles, and subjective well-being. Two hundred and eighty one men and women participated (42% of women) with a mean age of 21.89. All participants were currently in a romantic relationship. The Compassionate Love Scale shows satisfactory psychometric properties. Furthermore, our predictions were supported, as those who experience high levels of compassionate love for a romantic partner are more likely to report Eros and altruistic love (Agape), and subjective well-being.
%K compassionate love
%K love styles
%K religiosity
%K well-being
%U http://interpersonaabpri.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/02_neto.pdf