RUBIN’S SCALE OF LIKING AND LOVING: AN INTERESTING RESEARCH


Posted September 23, 2019 by phdresearch

Liking is mostly superficial that may give you a warm and fluttery feeling inside. On the other hand, love involves much deeper and complex emotions making it one of the greatest feelings that you will ever have in your lifetime.

 
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Loving Vs. Liking
In general, liking someone means that you are happy being with that person while loving someone means that you absolutely cannot bear to be without that person. As cliche as it may seem, liking gives you the proverbial butterflies in stomach but loving someone involves something much deeper than that. In essence, the difference between love and like has something to do with the depth of your emotion towards somebody. Liking is mostly superficial that may give you a warm and fluttery feeling inside. On the other hand, love involves much deeper and complex emotions making it one of the greatest feelings that you will ever have in your lifetime.

Given these points, the divergence of love and like are listed below:
1. Love is an unconditional emotion while like is a more watered-down version of love.
2. Loving someone means that he or she means everything to you while liking someone means that you are simply happy being with that person.
3. Love involves deeper and stronger emotions while like is more of a tender feeling towards that special someone.
4. Love is another person becoming an integral part of your life while like is being comfortable in the company of a person.

Rubin’s scale: Research Study
Until now, researchers have proposed a number of different theories to understand the nature of love and many have even attempted to devise ways to measure such feelings. It was social psychologist Zick Rubin who was one of the first researchers to develop an instrument designed to empirically measure love.

According to Rubin, romantic love is made up of three elements:
1. Attachment: The need to be cared for and be with the other person. Physical contact and approval are also important components of attachment.
2. Caring: Valuing the other person's happiness and needs as much as your own.
3. Intimacy: Sharing private thoughts, feelings and desires with the other person.

Using a psychometric approach to love, Rubin devised a scale to assess levels of liking and loving. According to Rubin, liking is conceptualized as feelings of warmth, closeness and admiration of another whereas loving is made up of caring, attachment and intimacy. All things considered, Rubin created scales by which to measure liking and loving by contrasting them with one another. Initially, he had a questionnaire of 80 questions designed to assess the attitudes a person holds about others, with the questions sorted in regards to whether they reflected liking or loving. From here, he narrowed it down to 13 questions and for each 13 questions, he considered the most reliable measures of these two variables. Each question should be answered on a 9-point Likert scale with 1 being “Not True” and 9 being “Definitely True”. The more points accrued on a scale, the stronger you like or love the other.

Love is not a concrete concept and is therefore difficult to measure. However, Rubin's scale of liking and loving offers a way to measure the complex feeling of love. There have been many dissertation reports on Rubin’s scale. His research has marked an important step forward in our understanding of romantic love and paved the way for future research on this fascinating topic.

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Last Updated September 23, 2019