Abstract:

Love, which is an important element in human life, is a relatively new research phenomenon. Besides been affected by cultural/contextual conditions, love is seen as a universal phenomenon and handled differently by various theories. However, what is known regarding the issue is yet limited. In particular, the number of studies done particularly in Turkey is so few. In this study,it was aimed to investigatethe love styles of emerging adult individuals in terms of demographic variables and parental attachment. 285 university students enrolled in the research with a relational screening model. The participants were applied Individual Information Form, Attitudes towards Love Scale (Hendrick, Hendrick and Dicke, 1998) and Parent Form of The Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (Armsden and Greenberg, 1987). As a result of the analyses, it has been found out that the number of affairs differs according to gender. Significant relationships have been found between the number of affairs and ludic and agapic love, and also between the affair duration and erotic, storgic, agapic and ludic love. Also, we have concluded that, ludic love, pragmatic love, manic love and agapic love differ according to gender. It has been found out that there are significant relationships between maternal attachment score and erotic, storgic and ludic love score; and also between the attachment on the father score and erotic, storgic and agapic love score. As a result, one can say that the obtained results both support the theories and signify the importance of cultural/contextual conditions on love affairs