How neat is that! You may have to give the study some credit for trying!
The study is based only on 809 couples from 33 countries, which is in my opinion a small sample. It appears from the news releases that this study mixed hetero- and homosexual couples without distinction.
According to Google Scholar this study was not cited once as of 3/1/2025.
"... The study, published in Personality and Individual Differences, grouped 809 partnered young adults who were in love based on the intensity of romantic love, obsessive thinking, commitment, and frequency of sex per week.
The results revealed four clusters of romantic lovers:
mild romantic lovers,
mild romantic lovers,
moderate romantic lovers,
libidinous—or lustful—romantic lovers and
intense romantic lovers ....
The study used data from the Romantic Love Survey 2022, the world's largest dataset of 1,556 young adults experiencing romantic love. It has participants from 33 countries representing different cultural and ethnic groups. ..."
From the abstract:
"Variation exists in the expression of romantic love, but to date, no studies have specifically investigated this phenomenon. This study employed a TwoStep cluster analysis to group 809 partnered young adults experiencing romantic love from the Romantic Love Survey 2022 according to intensity of romantic love, obsessive thinking, commitment, and frequency of sex per week.
The results revealed four clusters:
(i) mild romantic lovers (20.02 %) characterized by the lowest intensity, lowest obsessive thinking, lowest commitment, and lowest frequency of sex;
(ii) moderate romantic lovers (40.91 %), characterized by relatively low intensity, relatively low obsessive thinking, relatively high commitment, and relatively moderate frequency of sex;
(iii) libidinous romantic lovers (9.64 %), characterized by relatively high intensity, relatively high obsessive thinking, relatively high commitment, and exceptionally high frequency of sex; and
(iv) intense romantic lovers (29.42 %), characterized by the highest intensity, highest obsessive thinking, highest commitment, and relatively high frequency of sex.
Each cluster differs on a range of personal and relationship characteristics. The findings can generate theory and hypotheses about romantic love and provide impetus for future research."
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