Effects of subjects' opposite sec relationship and gender on the images about romantic love and the reasons of liking

レンアイ ノ イメージ ト コウイ リユウ ニ オヨボス イセイ カンケイ ト セイベツ ノ エイキョウ

カネマサ, ユウジ

Kanemasa, Yuji

谷口, 淳一

タニグチ, ジュンイチ

Taniguchi, Junichi

石盛, 真徳

イシモリ, マサノリ

Ishimori, Masanori

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ タイジン シャカイ シンリガク ケンキュウシツ

好意

対人魅力

恋愛関係

性別

romantic love

liking

interpersonal attraction

opposite sex relationship

gender

This study aimed at examining whether the images about love and the reasons of liking obtained from open-ended questions were affected by the opposite sex relationship and gender of subjects. Subjects were 117 male and 61 female students and were asked to answer these two questions freely, “what is romantic love for you?” and “please list the reason of why you became to like the closest opposite sex person for you?”. As the results of categorization, 15 categories on the images about love and 9 categories on the reasons of liking were obtained respectively. The results showed that male Ss tended to regard romantic love more negatively than female Ss in a mutual relationship and female Ss had relatively positive images toward romantic love in a stable relationship. On the question of the reasons of liking, female Ss mentioned desirable personal characteristics more than did male Ss, regardless of their relationship, and male Ss tended to refer physical appearances in a non-mutual relationship more than did female Ss. These results were discussed in terms of the differences in the concept of romantic love and process of liking with regard to the opposite sex relationship and gender.

谷口, 淳一

石盛, 真徳