Designing and Testing a Model of Some Antecedents and Outcomes of Three Types of Love in Married Employees of Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz

The purpose of this study was designing and testing a model of some antecedents and outcomes of three types of love in married employees of Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz.
The statistical population of present study was all married employees Chahid Chamran University were working in 2016. Researchers obtained 485 completed scales. They completed short forms of romantic, compassionate and friendship-based love scales, marriage expectation scale, NEO-FFI, experiences in close relationship scale, prosocial tendency measure, family health scale and marital satisfaction questionnaire. Before this research, in the pilot studies were prepared, short form of these scales by using confirmatory factor analysis.To test the proposed model, the structural modeling analysis, with application of Anderson & Gerbing's two-step approach was used. Also, to evaluate indirect effects in the model was used bootstrapping method.
Results showed that the fit indices for proposed model are in the acceptable range; however, by imposing some modifications, the model fitness to the data improved. Also, the results showed that antecedent variables had significant path coefficients on the tree types of love and companionate and compassionate love had significant effects on the outcome variables.
Generally, the findings of present study shows the formation of love types and their essential role in determining the quality of relationship and marital satisfaction in the context of an Iranian sample. These results were explained in the theoretical and experimental context of theoretical and theoretical and practical implications were presented.