AN APPLICATION OF THE TRIANGULAR THEORY OF LOVE TO ONE’S LOVE OF THEIR ACADEMIC CONCENTRATION
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This study sought to investigate whether the Triangular Theory of Love could be applied to the love an individual may feel toward their academic concentration in higher education.While previous studies have focused on loving relationships in romantic, sexual, and parental contexts, this study, to the best of our knowledge, is the first to attempt to apply a theory of love in an educational context to a student’s academic concentration. In an adapted version of the Triangular Love Scale and replication of the previous methodology used in The Love of one’s musical instrument as a predictor of happiness and satisfaction with musical experience, this study sampled undergraduate psychology majors at an elite university in the northeastern United States to gauge their emotional, motivational, and cognitive disposition toward their academic concentration (Sternberg, 2023). Results of this study showed that an application of an adapted version of the Triangular Love Scale yields statistically significant and reliable results. Each component of the Triangular Theory of Love (Commitment, Passion, and Intimacy) was measured with high internal consistency reliability, and the principal component analysis of thesubscales loaded distinctly to each construct, with each accounting for 33.33% of the variance within the population. In light of these findings, we believe this research provides the preliminary steps in the continued validation of applying the Triangular Theory of Love to measure student’s affinities toward their academic concentration.