The mediating role of Love Styles in the relationship between emotional and social loneliness and Desire for Marriage in College female Student

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of Love Styles in the relationship between emotional and social loneliness and desire for marriage in female Students. This research was fundamental in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of method. The statistical population included all female Students of Sanandaj universities in the 2019 academic year. 360 people entered the study by non-random quota sampling. The research tools included the Marriage desire questionnaire (MDQ), the Short form of the social and emotional loneliness scale for adults (SEL), and the Love Attitudes Scale (LAS).  Data were analyzed by the structural equation modeling method. The results showed that indirect pathways from emotional and social loneliness to desire for marriage through love styles (Eros, storage, and agape) are significant (P <0.05). The results of this study emphasize the importance of mediating the role of Love Styles in the relationship between loneliness and desire for marriage.