Romantic Passion as Output from a Self-Regulating, Intimacy-Seeking System: A Model for Understanding Passionate Love

This article presents a model of why individuals experience the feeling of passionate love in intimate relationships. Previous models have been limited because they do not describe the purpose and function of passionate love, do not incorporate basic emotion and personality theory, or are not applic...

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Published inPsychological reports Vol. 96; no. 3; pp. 655 - 675
Main Author Troy, Adam B.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.06.2005
Subjects
Affect
Female
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Love
Male
Personality Development
Psychological Theory
Sexual Partners
Social Control, Informal
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Summary:This article presents a model of why individuals experience the feeling of passionate love in intimate relationships. Previous models have been limited because they do not describe the purpose and function of passionate love, do not incorporate basic emotion and personality theory, or are not applicable to help couples in distress. The present model reinterprets and integrates previous findings. New predictions are made about the functioning of passionate love in relationships by hypothesizing a self-regulating, intimacy-seeking system that produces passionate love as its outcome. A self-regulation model proposed by Carver and Scheier in 1998 is the template on which this model is based.
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ISSN:0033-2941
1558-691X
DOI:10.2466/pr0.96.3.655-675