Premium
The measurement of Friendship‐based Love in intimate relationships
Author(s) -
GROTE NANCY KROPP,
FRIEZE IRENE HANSON
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
personal relationships
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.81
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1475-6811
pISSN - 1350-4126
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6811.1994.tb00066.x
Subject(s) - friendship , psychology , social psychology , interpersonal relationship , variety (cybernetics) , scale (ratio) , discriminant validity , developmental psychology , psychometrics , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , computer science , internal consistency
Friendship‐based Love (FBL) in intimate relationships may be defined as a comfortable, affectionate, trusting love for a likable partner, based on a deep sense of friendship and involving companionship and the enjoyment of common activities, mutual interests, and shared laughter. Theoretical derivation of the FBL concept is described, along with two versions of a new scale for its measurement. Two studies of the characteristics of Friendship‐based Love with middle‐aged married adults (N = 622) and dating young adults (N = 201) indicated that this type of love characterized the intimate relationships of both samples and was significantly and positively related to relationship satisfaction and to a variety of relationship characteristics. Discriminating comparisons of the FBL scale (both versions) with a revised measure of erotic love, with a revised measure of ludic or game‐playing love with a variety of partners, and with Passionate Love also were conducted. Both versions of the Friendship‐based Love scale showed substantial convergent and discriminant validity on the basis of correlational evidence (Studies 1 and 2), on multitrait‐monomethod validity criteria (Study l), and via the method of contrasted groups (Studies 1 and 2).