The Phenomenon of Love Addiction
Document Type
Poster Presentation
Start Date
20-4-2017 10:00 AM
End Date
20-4-2017 11:00 AM
Keywords
love, addiction, behavior
Biography
Olivia Boso was born in Charleston, West Virginia and was raised in the town of Ravenswood, West Virginia where she also attended high school. Olivia is the youngest of five siblings, her oldest sibling is 15 years older than her, and her youngest sibling is 12 years older than her. She was raised by her mother and her maternal grandmother until she was 18. She moved out of their home in fall of 2013 and started school in Huntington, West Virginia at Marshall University.
Major
Psychology
Advisor for this project
Marc Lindberg
Abstract
Purpose: a new questionnaire said to measure partner addiction was offered and tested. Methods: Participants included 491 undergraduate students. In addition to completing the two new partner addiction scales, they completed several questionnaires serving as independent variables including the Attachment and Clinical Issues Questionnaire (ACIQ), the CAGE, a scale for alcohol abuse, the DCAGE measure of drug abuse, two tests for Borderline Personality Disorder, a measurement of Partner Abuse and finally the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) questionnaire. Results. Significant correlations were found between Partner Addiction scales and measures of mixed attachment in the ACIQ as well as measurements of psychological, physical, and sexual abuse while growing up by the ACE. Significant correlations were also found between the scale of partner addiction and measures of partner abuse, the borderline scales, and a multitude of clinical issues such as anger, anxiety, need for control, and denial of feelings, jealousy, rumination, perfectionism, shame and mistrust. Discussion. Results such as these provide evidence that the scale of Partner Addictions has good predictive, or concurrent validity to scales theorized to be affected by the phenomenon of partner abuse.
The Phenomenon of Love Addiction
Purpose: a new questionnaire said to measure partner addiction was offered and tested. Methods: Participants included 491 undergraduate students. In addition to completing the two new partner addiction scales, they completed several questionnaires serving as independent variables including the Attachment and Clinical Issues Questionnaire (ACIQ), the CAGE, a scale for alcohol abuse, the DCAGE measure of drug abuse, two tests for Borderline Personality Disorder, a measurement of Partner Abuse and finally the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) questionnaire. Results. Significant correlations were found between Partner Addiction scales and measures of mixed attachment in the ACIQ as well as measurements of psychological, physical, and sexual abuse while growing up by the ACE. Significant correlations were also found between the scale of partner addiction and measures of partner abuse, the borderline scales, and a multitude of clinical issues such as anger, anxiety, need for control, and denial of feelings, jealousy, rumination, perfectionism, shame and mistrust. Discussion. Results such as these provide evidence that the scale of Partner Addictions has good predictive, or concurrent validity to scales theorized to be affected by the phenomenon of partner abuse.
