Abstract

A questionnaire was adminstered to 478 male and female Korean college students to identify the love styles, the preferred charateristics of date and marriage partners, effects of background variables, and the relationships between love styles and preferred characteristics of partners. Although it was found that Hendrick and Hendrick's(1986) six love styles were also presented in Korean college students, Korean college students showed greater variances in Mania and Eros factors and lesser variances in Pragma and Ludus factors. Fourteen background variabies were significantly related to the love styles. The preferred characteristics of date and marriage partners were similar and were roughly same as the results of Buss et al.(1990). The preferred characteristics of date and marriage partners were significantly differed in 13 characteristics. Sixteen background variables were significantly related to the preferred characteristics of date and marriage partners. There were significant correlations between love styles and preferred characteristics. It was proposed that love styles should include as an component the preferencs of partners characteristics.