"Love is blind." All of us have heard this phrase and many of us will even agree to it. This proverb can have many meanings; it all depends on how you interpret it. Throughout my paper this phrase has two different meanings; it could mean love is blind in a relationship or that love is blind as far as self-love. In our lives we all fall in love one day or another. That love can be painful or grateful. Sometimes, love blinds us. Blinded is when you don 't see or hear anything besides your own opinion on situation. Blindness also caused by our own thinking, if we do not want to feel hurt, we start thinking that everything is great and everything is going the right way. We tend to not see outside world besides our own imagination in which everything
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The Big Five model of personality consists of these five basic traits: extraversion, emotional stability, conscientiousness, agreeableness and intellect/culture. Researchers hypothesized expected individuals to hold positive illusions about a partner’s personality with regard to four of the five Big Five factors, that is, agreeableness, extraversion, conscientiousness and emotional stability, but not with regard to the fifth factor (Hypothesis 1a). We expected individuals to hold especially strong positive illusions concerning a partner’s emotional stability (or lack of neuroticism; Hypothesis 1b). We also expected a positive relationship between relationship quality and positive illusions about a partner’s personality (Hypothesis 2) and, finally, we hypothesized a positive relationship between individuals’ level of emotional stability and positive illusions about their partner’s personality (Hypothesis 3). The participants were asked to fill out a questionnaire that consisted of personality and relationship quality measures. An important criterion for participation was that the potential respondent was married or cohabiting and that his/her partner was willing to participate as …show more content…
In a relationship love can be “blind” in many ways. This also includes self-love; not loving yourself can put a strain on a relationship. A lack of self-love turns into relationship insecurity. Those with low self-esteem desire confirmation and acceptance from their partner. This problem applies with both sexes. In this study it explained that insecurity and lack of self-love is brought about because individuals tend to rate their partner as more attractive than themselves. Researchers predicted that the love-is-blind bias would predict the experience of possessive and anxious jealousy after the effects of love styles and relationship satisfaction were applied. A relationship between love is blind and jealousy was not expected. There were many reasons to believe that love is blind was associated with feelings and jealousy. One of those reasons was because physical appearance plays a role in interpersonal attractions and perception of partner physical attractiveness and is related to the level of intimacy and commitment (). Using a method that was called the “snowball sampling method”, researchers used their contacts to get participants for the study. In order to be eligible to participate in the study of love and jealousy participants had to be an adult and also had to be in a relationship. A survey was issued to the participants and no information was given about the
The Big Five model of personality consists of these five basic traits: extraversion, emotional stability, conscientiousness, agreeableness and intellect/culture. Researchers hypothesized expected individuals to hold positive illusions about a partner’s personality with regard to four of the five Big Five factors, that is, agreeableness, extraversion, conscientiousness and emotional stability, but not with regard to the fifth factor (Hypothesis 1a). We expected individuals to hold especially strong positive illusions concerning a partner’s emotional stability (or lack of neuroticism; Hypothesis 1b). We also expected a positive relationship between relationship quality and positive illusions about a partner’s personality (Hypothesis 2) and, finally, we hypothesized a positive relationship between individuals’ level of emotional stability and positive illusions about their partner’s personality (Hypothesis 3). The participants were asked to fill out a questionnaire that consisted of personality and relationship quality measures. An important criterion for participation was that the potential respondent was married or cohabiting and that his/her partner was willing to participate as …show more content…
In a relationship love can be “blind” in many ways. This also includes self-love; not loving yourself can put a strain on a relationship. A lack of self-love turns into relationship insecurity. Those with low self-esteem desire confirmation and acceptance from their partner. This problem applies with both sexes. In this study it explained that insecurity and lack of self-love is brought about because individuals tend to rate their partner as more attractive than themselves. Researchers predicted that the love-is-blind bias would predict the experience of possessive and anxious jealousy after the effects of love styles and relationship satisfaction were applied. A relationship between love is blind and jealousy was not expected. There were many reasons to believe that love is blind was associated with feelings and jealousy. One of those reasons was because physical appearance plays a role in interpersonal attractions and perception of partner physical attractiveness and is related to the level of intimacy and commitment (). Using a method that was called the “snowball sampling method”, researchers used their contacts to get participants for the study. In order to be eligible to participate in the study of love and jealousy participants had to be an adult and also had to be in a relationship. A survey was issued to the participants and no information was given about the