Stories of intimate relationships of Filipino gay men: A validation of Sternberg's love is a story theory

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Theology and Religious Education

Document Type

Archival Material/Manuscript

Publication Date

3-2007

Abstract

Sternberg (1998) proposed a theory that love is a story. According to this story, people develop stories of what a loving relationship should be. This research explored the conceptions of love among Filipino gay men using Sternberg's taxonomy of love stories. Using a mixed method design, different themes were inferred from a principal component analysis and different blends and combinations of stories emerged from in-depth interviews of participants' love stories. The themes commonly reported by Filipino gay men were garden, travel, democratic, sewing & knitting, sacrifice and history stories. Implications for gay relationship counseling are also discussed.

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Disciplines

Psychology

Keywords

Intimacy (Psychology); Gay couples; Love

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