ArticleFrontiers in psychology2023
The psychology of romantic relationships: motivations and mate preferences.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- What makes partners attractive? Slovak adaptation and psychometric validation of the Interpersonal Attraction Scale and its short forms.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Who Is Afraid of Romantic Relationships? Relationship Fears and Their Connection with Personal Values and Socio-Demographic Variables.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Toward a new theory of couple functioning: a short overview of "Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- What do we need kids for? Childbearing motivations, personal values, and socio-demographic differences.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Introduction: This study investigates motivations to engage in romantic relationships. We examine the structure of romantic motivations and their connections with personal values and mate preferences. Method: The study was conducted in Israel among young men and women looking for a romantic partner ( Results: Data analysis demonstrated that basic romantic motivations form a circumplex that may be partitioned into four higher-order romantic motivations: love and care, family and children, status and resources, and sex and adventure. The romantic motivations formed a meaningful pattern of connections with higher-order values, thus confirming that context-specific motivations are derived from general motivational goals expressed in values. Personal value preferences and romantic motivations predicted the sought-after partner characteristics over and above sociodemographic variables. Values were indirectly (through romantic motivations) and directly connected to mate preferences. Discussion: The study advances our understanding of romantic relationships among young people and opens new directions for research and counseling.
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