STYLES OF LOVE IN NON-MONOGAMOUS RELATIONSHIPS IN 20 TO 30 YEAR OLD PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS INTERAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PANAMA 2023

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify the love styles in non-monogamous relationships in university students of the Bachelor's Degree in Psychology of the Inter-American University of Panama, with an age range of 20 to 30 years and of both sexes. Enrolled in the period of the second semester of 2023, the student population in the Bachelor's Degree in Psychology is four hundred and seventy (470) students. For the development of this research, a population sample of two hundred and twelve (212) students is used, in which the Love Attitudes Scale (LAS) of Hendrick & Hendrick (1986) (Clyde Hendrick, 1986) and the Triangular Scale of Love of Sternberg (1986) (Sternberg R. J., 1986) were applied, through the Google Forms tool, it was obtained that there is a greater predominance of the Eros attitude with a higher percentage of 38.12% of the love that is not present in their relationships is the ludos attitude with 45.15%. In relation to the Theory of Types of Love (Lee 1973) (Lee, 1973). In relation to Sternberg's (1986) Triangular Theory of Love (Sternberg R. J., 1986), the predominant component is Intimacy with 41.73% and the Passion component with less relevance in their relationships is 31.51%. It is concluded that the students would not be part of a non-monogamous relationship. This can be determined by the Ludos attitude, this attitude is the one that is associated with openness or practices that include practices or behaviors associated with non-monogamous relationships or as polyamory is commonly known "open relationships". Students are determined by the intense feelings attached to the attraction or physical appearance of Eros.