Compassionate Love: Conceptual, Measurement, and Relational Issues

The Science of Compassionate Love: Theory, Research, and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 27-52

  Fehr, Beverley ^a   Sprecher, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altruism and compassionate love; Compassionate Love Scale (CLS); Compassionate love scale validation; Conceptual, measurement, and relational issues; Conceptualization of compassionate love; Individual characteristics encouraging expression of compassionate love in people; Laypeople and their conceptions of compassionate love; Underwood's model of compassionate love

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955404770     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444303070.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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