A Study to Investigate The Impact Of Love Styles On The Level of Deception

ABSTRACT

Background: The causes of deception in a close relationship need to be zeroed upon to improve the qualityof a relationship. The present study explores the causes of deception in close relationships based uponAlan Lee’s Love styles which describe three primary love styles namely Eros (physical love), Ludus (gameplaying love) and Storge (companionate love).Methods: The sample consisted of a group of 30 participants in the age group of 18 to 28 years andaverage number of years of relationship being two years one month. The Love Attitude scale wasadministered on them to ascertain their love styles and the Tim Cole scale measured their level ofdeception. Based upon their scores on the Love style scale the sample was grouped into three categoriesnamely Eros, Ludus and Storge.Results: The highest mean for deception was for Eros style (24.5) followed by Ludus (21.2) and least beingfor Storge (14.8). An f test was calculated to find out whether the difference between the three means wasstatistically significant or not.The f value was found to be 6.47 which was found to be statisticallysignificant at the .05 level of significance. In order to find out which of the two means were significantlydifferent the Tukey HSD was calculated and the value was found to be 6.77. The difference between Erosand Storge contributed significantly to the difference.Conclusion: Thus, to conclude people having different love styles have different levels of deceptionimpacting the relationship.