Romantic love in the age of COVID-19

The article reflects on the importance of having a romantic love between the partners to cope up with the stress during the COVID-19 pandemic. Authors decided to measure the love styles as romantic "attitudes," and did considerable research to develop a questionnaire to assess degree of agreement with the six love styles. Authors assumed that virtually everyone could agree to a greater or lesser extent with the questions reflecting each love style, and therefore people did not have to pick only one style as self-representative. Authors first published a long form of their scale called the Love Attitudes Scale (LAS) and later a shortened form of the scale named the Love Attitudes Scale-Short Form. Authors purpose is to propose ways in which these love styles/love attitudes might function in this incredibly challenging "in-your-face" time of COVID. The goal is to be helpful. As longtime scholars and marital partners (43 years), they are living this pandemic a day at a time, just as you are. This era of a global pandemic is unfamiliar and frightening to all who view its gravity in a clear-eyed fashion. Yet this is also a time when love and caring (in this case for a romantic partner) can deepen a relationship profoundly. We humans are far from perfect, but loving is in our nature. These love styles offer one way of viewing romantic, partnered love. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Gender Differences Of Emotional Style In University Students During The Covid 19 Pandemic

Rumination and inhibition of the emotional style of university students is linked to gender and these emotions predispose to stressrelated diseases and are the cause of the negative effect they produce on personal and academic contact. Methods: In the present investigation, it was carried out considering a non-experimental design, it contains a population of 482 female and male university students. The instrument used was subjected to content validity through expert judgment and reliability was Kuder - Richardson (KR20), with a result of .960, considering high reliability and internal consistency. Results: The investigation concluded that female university students presented a 12% negative level, 29.7% presented a moderate level and 10.4% presented a positive level and male students 38.6% presented a negative level, 8.1% presents a moderate level and 1.2% presented a positive level of emotional style. Discussion: In relation to the results of the study, women have better levels of emotional style than men and coincidences with the background of this research are observed. Likewise, the importance of emotions being the relevant component to guarantee professional, personal and social competencies in the various contexts is established, and the management of emotions also guarantees in the process of using communication and management technologies. of time, the same ones that constitute a key for improvement. Finally, it has been important to identify gender differences in emotional style in order to recommend strategies to improve emotional style and rumination.