Chinese People's Psychology And Some Influential Factors Of Romantic Love

In the sight of happiness, romantic love is very important in one's life. But in the review of Psychologists' researches, we can hardly find this theme. From 1970s, while many western countries have undertaken both theoretical and empirical studies on romantic love, domestic researches are limited by the introduction to the western research conclusions and theories without application and demonstration. The culture and status quo of China are different from western countries, so the psychology of romantic love between Chinese people and westerners are different too. We can't use the western theories and questionnaires directly. We should build up the theory well applicable in the background of China, and look for the way to discuss romantic love.This research was with university students and the social personage from five areas of China, and mainly adopted questionnaire to carry on the discussion to the above-mentioned two questions. This study was divided into two key steps, totally four small researches. The first step, the key characteristic vocabulary of the romantic love was collected through open questionnaire investigation. Then deleted, simplified and amalgamated through experts to the words, and carried on interview to collect the opinion among a small circle. Finally we formed the questionnaire which includes 37 words. Through exploratory factor analysis, we found the love psychology of Chinese had 5 dimensionalities: caring, passion, love values, admit and romantic.The second step, worked out the item of the questionnaire of Chinese's love psychology according to the meaning of each dimensionality. After evaluation by the panel of experts and examination among a small circle, discussed and confirmed the preliminary questionnaire which had totally 26 items. Through exploratory factor analysis of the questionnaire data, we provde tentatively the conclusion got in word. Then discussed with experts and interviewed to some subjects, went on to modify to items, finally we formed the formal questionnaire of Chinese's love psychology. Confirmatory factor analysis, reliability and validity analysis were conducted on the 392 recalled valid questionnaire, the result showed satisfied reliability and validity of the instrument. By correlation and regression analysis, research on the effects of demographic variables on love psychology was done. The result indicated that, ages,gender, job, family's economic situation and love relation state had significant predictive effects on love psychology. Meanwhile, people from families of different intimate intensity had different love psychology too.