Sperling M B
Dept. of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA.
J Pers Assess. 1985 Jun;49(3):324-8. doi: 10.1207/s15327752jpa4903_20.
Viewing desperate love as marked by urgency, neediness, dependence, a great need for reciprocation, indealization, and affective extremes, personality traits leading to desperate love were examined. A sample of 251 undergraduates, in desperate love, nondesperate love, and random groups, completed several questionnaires examining characteristic qualities of self and important others and attitudes toward love (Desperate Love Scale, Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale, Knox-Sporakowski Attitudes Toward Love Scale, Characteristic Qualities Questionnaire). Findings support both the primary hypothesis that people can be differentiated in their experience of desperate love based upon significantly different responses when describing characteristic qualities of self and important others and the secondary hypothesis that those tending toward desperate love have a more romantic attitude toward love. The study can be taken as an indication that latent qualities, as well as manifest behavior, differentiate someone who experiences desperate love.
将绝望的爱情视为具有紧迫性、需求性、依赖性、强烈的互惠需求、理想化以及情感极端化等特征，对导致绝望爱情的人格特质进行了研究。选取了251名本科生作为样本，分为处于绝望爱情组、非绝望爱情组和随机组，他们完成了几份问卷，用以考察自我和重要他人的特质以及对爱情的态度（绝望爱情量表、马洛-克劳恩社会赞许性量表、诺克斯-斯波拉科夫斯基爱情态度量表、特质问卷）。研究结果支持了两个假设：一是主要假设，即人们在描述自我和重要他人的特质时，因显著不同的反应而在绝望爱情的体验上存在差异；二是次要假设，即倾向于绝望爱情的人对爱情持有更浪漫的态度。该研究表明，潜在特质以及显性行为能够区分经历绝望爱情的人。
