In: Psychology
What is the relationship between personality and love? what is Big Five Personality theory. How are these personality traits related to how we love?
Love is physically taken to represent human range of emotions from simple feelings of pleasure to overwhelming attraction to another person.The three primary styles of love are Eros-passionate romantic love,Storage-friendship playing love,and Ludus-gameplaying love.Sternberg proposed an alternative conceptualization namely intimacy,passion and commitment.The five factor personality theory are openness to experience,conscientousness,Extraversion and agreeableness and neuroticism.Concentiousness may be associated with love and intimacy as it involves self control and achievement orientation.it is also associated with persistency,reliablity and it explains the relationship between personality factor and commitment.There can be a positive relationship between extraversion and love dimensions as extroverts are able to communicate love than introverts.Agreeableness is accepted when they are trying to understand interpersonal behaviour and marital dissatisfaction.Agreeable individuals are more likely to control their negative emotions and use constructive tactics in negative emotions.Openness to experience and love styles may not be well acceptable .