Sociological Analysis of Love Styles and Its Relation with Religiosity among Tehran’s Citizens

Love and sincere emotional relationships, as one of the most important needs of a person, play an important role in the mental health of individuals and society. romantic relationships have a long history of human life because benefiting from a healthy life combined with love and intimacy is one of the basic needs of every social person. In the context of a religious society, this need takes on forms that are appropriate to religious and Shariah laws. On the other hand, having a religious approach and complying with its requirements can determine the love style of people. The purpose of this research is to explain the sociological love styles and its relationship with religiosity among citizens of Tehran.

The method of this research is descriptive-correlation, the sample size includes 300 people who were selected from the north, center, east, west and south parts of Tehran by multi-stage cluster method. The data analysis of the operationalization of Kazemi and Faraji's religiosity measurement model (2016) and Sternberg's three-dimensional love questionnaire was performed using descriptive and inferential tests. The analysis of mediating variables relationships between independent and main dependent variables is done using Spss software. In addition, to analyze the structural equations governing the relationships between variables, structural equation analysis with the help of Amos software has been used.

The research findings show that the level of religiosity of people is effective on their lovemaking style. In this research, it was found that religious emotions and experiences have a strong effect on love style; So that people with higher religious feelings have more love in their life together. The results related to the fit indices of the model of the relationship between the level of religiosity and the love style of people show that this model has a good fit with the data.