Validation of the Strenberg triangular love scale in the single university student

This article presents a construct validation of a love scale based upon a triangular theory of love. The article opens whit a review of the major theories of love، and whit a discussion of some of the major issues in love research. Next it briefly reviews selected elements of the triangular theory of love، according to which love can be understood as comprising three components – intimacy، passion، and decision commitment. This article provides empirical data directly testing a scale based on the triangular theory of love. Data collection proceeded through the use of questionnaires. The aim was assessment of internal and external validation ofthe Stranberg Triangular Love Scale. The main questionnaire were the Stranberg Triangular Love Scale and TheMeasurment of Interpersonal Attraction - James C. McCroskey and Thomas A. McCain. Participant comprises122 single university student. According to result، internal structure of the data is consistent whit the theory and external validation determination of whether the scale based on the theory shows sensible patterns of correlations whit external measures. also، the relation between of the Measures of Interpersonal Attraction and the triangular love scale was nonlinear and correlations coefficient obtained are very poor.