Loving Styles: Relationships with Big Five Factors of Personality and Attachment Styles

In recent studies, love is considered as a primary psychological need. The purpose of present study was to investigate the relationships between big five factors of personality, attachment styles with loving styles based on the model of Heaven, Da Silva, Cary & Holen (2004). Hence, the sample of 395 undergraduate students (178 girls and 217 boys) was selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method from faculty of psychology and education, Kharazmi University. The instruments consisted of the NEO-PI-R Questionnaire (McCrae and Costa, 1992), attachment styles inventory (Collins and Read, 1990), and love attitude scale (Hendrich, Hendrick & Dicke, 1998). Results indicated that neuroticism had direct relationship with depend, close and anxious attachment styles, and indirect relationship with love style of storge. Extraversion had direct relationship with attachment styles of depend and close and indirect relationship with loving styles of storge, mania and agape. Moreover, dependent style showed direct relationships with storge, close style with mania and agape, and anxious style with eros, mania, and agape. Eventually, results indicated adequate fitness between model and data of this research.