Explaining the Possibility of Replacing Hafez Poems with the Categories of Two Sternberg Love Diagnosis Questionnaires: A Comparative Study

Love is a human and cultural phenomenon and can be a common field of study in psychology and literature. There are many different definitions of love in psychology, one of the most distinctive of which was stated by Sternberg, called triangular theory, which consists of three components: intimacy, commitment, and passion. Sternberg then introduces love as a story to re-evaluate his theory. With a psychometric approach, Sternberg designed two questionnaires with the aim of identifying the type of love relationship and estimating the continuity of marital relationships based on the similarity of the couple's love story. Since Ghazal Hafez as one of the pillars of Persian literature mentions many romantic concepts and miraculously expresses love, this study aims to explain the possibility of replacing Hafez's poems with two categories of questionnaires. Sternberg's love was diagnosed by comparative analysis. Findings show the possibility of replacing Hafez's poems to identify love by describing the psychological features of Hafez's poetry such as mental projection, center of will, imagination, emotion and hope and their equivalence with the aspects of love theory as a story. . Also, by tracing themes such as faithfulness to the covenant, sincerity, impatience, loyalty, empathy, sharing of assets with the beloved, etc., it became clear that Hafez, as a psychologist, paid attention to complete love.