Investigation of the relationship between love styles, self-esteem and personality traits

In this study, it is aimed to examine the relationships between love styles, self-esteem and personality traits. The study group of the research consists of 203 university students. 118 (58.1%) of the participants are female and 85 (41.9%) are male. Relational screening model was used in the research. The data were collected via " The Love Attitudes Scale-Short Form", " Adjective Based Personality Scale" and "The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale". In addition, "Personal Information Form" was used to get information about the personal characteristics of the participants. The analysis of the data was carried out via the "SPSS 21 for Windows" program. The skewness and kurtosis coefficients were used to investigate whether the scores of all participants showed a normal distribution. The data were analyzed via independent samples t test, one-way analysis of variance and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. As a result of the study, it was found that agape and mania were negatively correlated with self-esteem, while eros has a positive significant relationship with self-esteem. Agape also has a negative association with extroversion and positive association with agreeableness; Storge is positively assocıated wıth openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness; eros is negatively associated with neuroticism and negatively associated with openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness; pragma is positively associated with extroversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness; ludus is negatively associated with openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness, and mania is negatively associated with neuroticism and positively associated with extroversion. In addition, a negative relationship was found between self-esteem and neuroticism and a positive relationship between extraversion, openness to experience, and conscientiousness. It has been determined that love styles differ according to gender, being in a romantic relationship, but not according to age. It was determined that self-esteem did not differ according to demographic variables, while personality traits differ according to gender and age.