Attitudes of university students towards love and the relationship of relation satisfaction with personality traits

There are two main purposes of this study. First purpose is to analyze whether romantic relationship satisfaction of the university students can be predicted from their personality traits and attitudes towards love or not. Second purpose is to analyze whether the attitudes towards love and romantic relationship satisfaction of the university students differantiate according to gender, number of romantic relationship and romantic relationship time duration or not.For this purpose, 250 female and 87 male, all in romantic relationship of totally 337 students from different departments of Gazi University Education Faculty in 2009-2010 education year participated in the study. ?Love Attitudes Scale (short form)? , ?Adjective Based Personality Scale (ABPT)? , ?Relationship Assessment Scala? and Personal Information Form were used to provide the data. To analyze the data SPSS 17.0 programme was used, and the t test,single variable variance analysis and multiple regression analysis were done.1.Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticzm and Openess personality traits of the university students all together explained 11% of the variance related to romantic relationship satisfaction. Opennes to experience personality trait was the strongest predictive variable of relationship satisfaction, which was followed by extraversion personality trait.2.University students? attitudes towards love which were Agape , Storge, Eros, Pragma, Ludus, Mania love attitudes explained 58% of the variance related to romantic relationship satisfaction. Eros was the strongest predictive variable of romantic relationship satisfaction, which was followed by agape, mania and ludus respectively.3.University students? attitudes towards love showed significant difference according to gender. It was found that males? agape and ludus scores were higher than females? scores and females? pragma and storge scores were higher than males? scores.4.University students? romantic relationship satisfaction didn?t show any significant difference according to gender and relationship number.5.University students? attitudes towards love showed significant difference according to number of romantic relationship and romantic relationship time duration. As the number of romantic relationship increased ludus scores increased whereas storge scores decreased. It was found that university students? increasing time duration of romantic relationship means increasing eros scores.6.University students romantic relationship satisfaction showed significant difference according to romantic relationship time duration. As the romantic relationship time duration of university increased, it was found that romantic relationship satisfaction also increased.Key Words: Love Attitudes, Personality Traits, Romantic Relationship Satisfaction