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The Love Attitudes Scale: Short Form

Texas Tech University

Susan S. Hendrick

Texas Tech University

Amy Dicke

Texas Tech University

The Love Attitudes Scale (LAS) is a well-standardized measure of six of Lee's (1973) love styles. The LAS has six sub-scales, each with seven items. Several researchers have selected subsets of the items to create very brief versions of the LAS; however, no brief version has been fully validated. To satisfy the need for brief love scales, we selected the best four of seven items per subscale, using a large data collection, and began the process of restandardization. Three studies, with over 2700 participants, are reported that yielded two new short forms of the LAS, one with 4-item and one with 3-item subscales. The data indicate that these versions have even stronger psychometric properties than the original scale. The LAS: Short Form should be suitable for researchers who need a brief love scale as part of a battery of relationship measures.

Key Words: LAS: short form • love attitudes • love measurement

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Vol. 15, No. 2, 147-159 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/0265407598152001


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