Investigating Limerence: Predictors of Limerence, Measure Validation, and Goal Progress
| dc.contributor.advisor | Lemay, Edward P. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Wolf, Noah R. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Psychology | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-23T06:31:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-01-23T06:31:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Limerence is a love experience that involves an obsessive desire for romantic reciprocation from a specific other (the limerent object; LO), which manifests itself as intrusive cognitive preoccupation, emotional dependency, and apprehension. This investigation assessed the construct validity and reliability of a new measure of limerence and examined if various personality characteristics and goal pursuit decisions/outcomes were associated with limerence. College students completed 2 online questionnaires 1 month apart assessing limerence, various love states, personality characteristics, and goal pursuit. Findings suggest the new limerence measure is valid and reliable. Low self-esteem, attachment anxiety, low self-concept clarity, need to belong, validation-seeking goal orientation, social phobia, social interaction anxiety, and mind-wandering were found to be associated with limerence. The association between low self-esteem and limerence was found to be mediated mostly through social phobia and validation-seeking goal orientation. Goal importance and resources allocation mediated associations between limerence and goal progress. | en_US |
| dc.identifier | https://doi.org/10.13016/M2X921M0C | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/20272 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject.pqcontrolled | Social psychology | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | Goal Pursuit | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | Infatuation | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | Limerence | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | Love | en_US |
| dc.title | Investigating Limerence: Predictors of Limerence, Measure Validation, and Goal Progress | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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