Modern Psychological Studies
Periodical Title
Modern Psychological Studies
Volume
21
Number
1
Page Numbers
pages 25-33
Publisher
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Place of Publication
Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Date
2015
Abstract
Depression is a debilitating mental illness that entails much more than just sadness. In an attempt to discover if there is a relationship between experience of love and depression, a survey was created to assess these variables. The survey included the Experience of Love Questionnaire (ELQ), an author-developed scale, and the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale (Radloffi 1977). The ELQ consisted of three subscales measuring experience of love in family, friends, and romantic relationships. The hypothesis of this study was that there would be a negative correlation between experience of love and depression. The survey was completed by 103 participants and the results revealed a correlation between the two variables. The correlation was significant in the friend and family ELQs but, surprisingly, not in the romantic relationship ELQ. This was unexpected, so romantic relationships were further analyzed, revealing that there was a significant correlation, but only in the married part of the sample. These results could lead to a belief that it is possible to decrease depressive symptoms f relationships and perceptions of love improve.
Subject
Psychology
Discipline
Psychology
Document Type
article
DCMI Type
Text
Extent
9 leaves
Language
English
Call Number
BF1 .M63 v. 21 no. 1 2015
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Recommended Citation
Hill, Laura and Flanagan, Cherisse
(2015)
"Love is a battlefield: experience of love in relation to depression,"
Modern Psychological Studies: Vol. 21:
No.
1, Article 5.
Available at:
https://scholar.utc.edu/mps/vol21/iss1/5
Department
Dept. of Psychology