I love the way you love me: Responding to partner's love language preferences boosts satisfaction in romantic heterosexual couples.

ABSTRACT: Chapman's Love Languages hypothesis claims that (1) people vary in the ways they prefer to receive and express affection and (2) romantic partners who communicate their feelings congruent with their partner's preferences experience greater relationship quality. The author proposes five distinct preferences and tendencies for expressing love, including: Acts of Service, Physical Touch, Words of Affirmation, Quality Time and Gifts. In the present study partners (N = 100 heterosexual couples) completed measures assessing their preferences and behavioral tendencies for a) expressions of love and b) reception of signs of affection, for each of the five proposed "love languages". Relationship satisfaction, sexual satisfaction and empathy were also assessed. The degree of the within-couple mismat

SUBMITTER: Mostova O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9216579 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature