Genç Yetişkinlerin Aşk Stillerinin Benlik Tipleri ve Demografik Değişkenler Açısından İncelenmesi

For many people, love is one of the most important elements of life ın today world. Though the issue has been handled in different literatures intensely throughout history, it has been bypassed for long as a scientific phenomenon. Besides, problems encountered in emotional relationships with the opposite sex and changes we come across in our daily lives make it inevitable to carry out scientific studies. In this study love styles of young adults are investigated according to demographic variables and self-construal. Love has been generally handled in this study as a phenomenon as a thought constructed socially and that has cognitive, affective, and behavioural components. The research is a descriptive one based on relationship survey model. The research group consists of 590 individuals between ages 24 to 30, who reside within Ankara province boundaries but in regions representing different socio-economic levels. “Love Attitudes Scale”, “Relational, Individual, Collective Self-Aspects Scale” and “Personal Information Form” are applied to the research group. To answer the research questions, t-test, One-Way ANOVA and Cluster Analysis techniques were used benefiting from SPSS. The data obtained from this research highlight in Turkey, a differentiation of love styles according to number of relationships, durationship of relationship, status of relationship, sex, socio-economic status and individualisticrelational-collective self-construal. Based on the conclusions of the research, it can be stated that clues have been obtained regarding the root of the problem observed in emotional relationships in Turkey and self-construal that can be accepted as the reflection of culture on the individual is crucial in finding out these clues. Besides this, our findings we obtained within the context of love styles of young adults and love stylesself types can be said to support Lee’s love types. The social context in which the people live are regarded as important in the shaping of love styles.