A Triangular Theory of Love Robert J. Steinberg Results Section: SPSS Outline of the paper Abstract Introduction Statement of the problem Review of literature Summary paragraph of literature Cl

Methods Section:
- Participants (major demographics); apparatus and materials (equipment, survey & data collection software; every scale, instrument; examples; good amount of detail)
- Design (type of study ie correlational; variables);
- Procedure (step-by-step description of what happens to your participant's experience from start to finish; important instructions to participants - ie final thoughts question, what does that tell us about future research?)
Discussion Section:
- First paragraph: say in words what we found (from the results section)
- Review of Hypothesis
- Limitations
- Future Directions
Results Section:
We ran the following steps on our conservatism items and Sternberg’s items:
1. Rename variables
2. Recode variables (if needed; i.e. C2 changed to C2r)
3. Run scale reliability analysis for variables to compute Cronbauch’s alpha (state Cronbauch’s alpha and what it means)
4. Check to see if we need to remove anything to improve Cronbauch’s alpha (Cronbauch’s alpha for passion was unacceptable, therefore we cut 2 of the 3 questions to increase the reliability of the items/measurement (?)
5. Create composite variables by running mean scores for each variable (this might be before step 4 but I can’t quite remember)
6. After we go through conservatism, intimacy, passion, and commitment, we run a correlation between the constructs and behaviors
* Love behaviors and commitments: r=.715
* Love behaviors and intimacy: r=.730
* Love behaviors and passion: r=.125 (basically no correlation - maybe because many respondents were in long-term relationships?)
Notes:
- Then I think we were supposed to check for convergent validity and discriminate validity but I’m not sure if she touched on that.
- Maybe the hypothesis: “We expect our behavioral items to have a relatively strong correlation between Sternberg’s love constructs” - and it did, but only with commitment and intimacy
- Purpose of study: to improve the construct validity of Sternberg’s triangular theory of love by adding love behaviors (this will be the second to last sentence of the introduction and the first sentence in the discussion)
- Limitations (in Discussion Section): we neglected to remove people from the analyses that were talking about imaginary partners - had we done so it might have affected our Cronbauch’s alpha
- Future Discussion: what might we do differently to get different results? I suggested redesigning our survey to better gather data from non-monogamous and/or relationships between non-binary partners (essentially to make the survey less centered on heteronormative, monogamous, and binary ideas of love behaviors) - I think she wants us all to answer this for ourselves in the discussion section, but I’m not exactly sure
- She also said “We expect convergent validity between Sternberg’s constructs and love behaviors” (they will have a strong, positive correlation) and we expect “discriminate validity between conservatism and love behaviors” (no correlation) - however, we found out at the end that our study produced a moderate, negative correlation between conservatism and love behaviors (as love behaviors went up, conservatism went down)