Love and affectionate touch toward romantic partners all over the world

Sorokowska, Agnieszka (avtor), Kavčič, Tina (avtor), Zupančič, Maja (avtor)

Touch is the primary way people communicate intimacy in romantic relationships, and affectionate touch behaviors such as stroking, hugging and kissing are universally observed in partnerships all over the world. Here, we explored the association of love and affectionate touch behaviors in romantic partnerships in two studies comprising 7880 participants. In the first study, we used a cross-cultural survey conducted in 37 countries to test whether love was universally associated with affectionate touch behaviors. In the second study, using a more fine-tuned touch behavior scale, we tested whether the frequency of affectionate touch behaviors was related to love in romantic partnerships. As hypothesized, love was significantly and positively associated with affectionate touch behaviors in both studies and this result was replicated regardless of the inclusion of potentially relevant factors as controls. Altogether, our data strongly suggest that affectionate touch is a relatively stable characteristic of human romantic relationships that is robustly and reliably related to the degree of reported love between partners.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: touch, love, romantic relationships, cross-cultural studies
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: ZF - Zdravstvena fakulteta ; FF - Filozofska fakulteta
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Datum objave: 01.01.2023
• Leto izida: 2023
• Št. strani: Str. 1-13
• Številčenje: Vol. 13, article no. 5497
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-152738
• UDK: 159.922:177.6
• ISSN pri članku: 2045-2322
• DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-31502-1
• COBISS.SI-ID: 147821059
• Datum objave v RUL: 05.12.2023

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Scientific reports
• Skrajšan naslov: Sci. rep.
• Založnik: Nature Publishing Group
• ISSN: 2045-2322
• COBISS.SI-ID: 18727432

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY-NC 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva-Nekomercialno 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: Licenca Creative Commons, ki prepoveduje komercialno uporabo, vendar uporabniki ne rabijo upravljati materialnih avtorskih pravic na izpeljanih delih z enako licenco.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: dotik, ljubezen, partnerski odnosi, medkulturne študije

Projekti

• Financer: Drugi - Drug financer ali več financerjev
• Program financ.: University of Wroclaw, Poland
• Naslov: “Being Human” Scientific Excellence Incubator

• Financer: MESTD - Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia
• Številka projekta: 451-03-47/2023-01/200165
• Naslov: Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovations of the Republic of Serbia