Measurement invariance of the short form compassionate love scale for a romantic partner and sexuality

IF 4.6 Q2 MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS

ACS Applied Bio Materials Pub Date : 2024-01-05 DOI:10.1177/02654075231226379

Joana Neto, Félix Neto

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Abstract

Compassionate love (CL), a particular kind of love, is centred on enlarging beneficence to another. A short form to assess CL for a romantic partner (CLS-P-SF) was recently developed. The CLS-P-SF is a one-dimensional measure. In this study, we examined CLS-P-SF’s measurement invariance (MI) across gender and age, and the relationship of the CL with sexuality measures. There were 1184 Portuguese participants, 48% women and 52% men, aged between 18 to 79 (M = 37.36; SD = 16.89). Confirmatory factor analyses evidenced that the one latent dimension of the CLS-P-SF confirmed an acceptable fit to the data. MI, and internal consistency were adequate. This invariance permitted to perform meaningful latent average comparisons. The effect of gender and age were not significant. CLS-P-SF was positively associated with sexual desire, love is most important, sex demonstrates love, love comes before sex and satisfaction with sex life, and negatively associated with sex is declining and sociosexuality. Findings are discussed in their relationship with existent literature. The CLS-P-SF’s brevity makes it a promising tool for researchers and practitioners.

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对恋爱伴侣和性行为的同情之爱简表的测量不变性

怜悯之爱（CL）是一种特殊的爱，其核心是扩大对他人的恩惠。最近开发了一种简短的表格（CLS-P-SF）来评估对恋爱伴侣的 "同情之爱"。CLS-P-SF 是一种单维度测量。在这项研究中，我们考察了 CLS-P-SF 在不同性别和年龄之间的测量不变性（MI），以及 CL 与性测量的关系。共有 1184 名葡萄牙人参加了这项研究，其中女性占 48%，男性占 52%，年龄在 18 至 79 岁之间（男 = 37.36；女 = 16.89）。确认性因素分析表明，CLS-P-SF 的一个潜维度与数据的拟合度可以接受。MI和内部一致性也是适当的。这种不变量允许进行有意义的潜平均比较。性别和年龄的影响并不显著。CLS-P-SF 与性欲、爱是最重要的、性能体现爱、爱先于性和对性生活的满意度呈正相关，而与性衰退和社会性负相关。研究结果与现有文献的关系进行了讨论。CLS-P-SF 的简洁性使其成为研究人员和从业人员的理想工具。

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ACS Applied Bio Materials Chemistry-Chemistry (all)

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9.40

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2.10%

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464