Perception of ideas about love in mature women living in Russia

Abstract

The subject of study in this study is differences in ideas about love. Using the example of women from Russia, the hypothesis was tested that ideas about love change slightly over time depending on age. 94 women took part in the study. For comparison, the women were divided by age (the first group - mature women of the first stage (21-35 years old), the second group - mature women of the second stage (36-55 years old). The methods used were the questionnaire “Ideas about love" (Dzhidaryan I A., Belovol E.V., Maslova O.V., 2014) and the classic associative experiment (Vlasenkova I.N., 2009). A comparative analysis of the data obtained showed that ideas about love have statistically significantly more similarities than differences. In the ideas about love of mature women of the first and second stages, the hypothesis that the ideas about love of women of the first and second stages will not have significant differences was confirmed in the ideas of “love is a hindrance” and “love as self-giving.” The hypothesis that women belonging to the first group will have more specific concepts of love in their associations, while women of the second group will have more extensive concepts of what love is, was confirmed.

Keywords

• ideas about love
• associations
• women
• statistics
• maturity
• age stages