Beyond the Ludic Lover: Individual Differences in Playfulness and Love Styles in Heterosexual Relationships

Autor/inn/en	Proyer, René T.; Brauer, Kay; Wolf, Annegret; Chick, Garry
Titel	Beyond the Ludic Lover: Individual Differences in Playfulness and Love Styles in Heterosexual Relationships
Quelle	In: American Journal of Play, 10 (2018) 3, S.265-289 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1938-0399
Schlagwörter	Play; Individual Differences; Adults; Intimacy; Sexual Orientation; Classification + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spiel; Individueller Unterschied; Intimität; Sexuelle Orientierung; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem
Abstract	Adult playfulness contributes to well-functioning romantic relationships, claim the authors, who study the association between playfulness of several kinds (other directed, lighthearted, intellectual, whimsical) and six specific attitudes towards love they call love styles--"eros," "ludus," "storge," "pragma," "mania" and "agape." To do so, they engaged seventy-seven heterosexual couples to rate the love styles against a checklist for playful behaviors in romantic relationships the authors call the Playful Love Checklist (PLC). The authors then analyzed the responses for similarities and robust associations, either negative or positive, between partners for their views on playfulness in love relationships. Their findings suggest, among other things, that current conceptualizations of playfulness do not much overlap with what other researchers have called the ludic lover, and the authors' analysis of self-ratings and partner ratings contributes to our understanding of the association between playfulness and love styles. (As Provided).
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