Evidence of Construct Validity of the Love Components Scale

ABSTRACT This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Brazilian version of the reduced Love Components Scale. Participants were 491 people in loving relationships. Exploratory factor analysis extracted three factors that explained 73.5% of the common variance that did not reproduce the original structure. The factors showed moderate to strong correlations with each other and with the components of the reduced Triangular Love Scale. The Schmid-Leiman solution indicated the existence of a second-order factor. The reliability coefficients revealed a high internal consistency for all dimensions of the instrument. Additional exploratory factor analysis with the set of items of the two measurements revealed structural indications that they may represent the same components of love.