| The primary focus of this study was to examine the behavioral and perceptual response of 77 married, cohabitating, heterosexual couples based on their newly acquired knowledge relating to the love expression category identification as defined by Chapman's Love Language Profile. First, the study examined whether the research participants felt that Chapman's Love Language Profile accurately identified the love expression used by each marital partner. Second, once category membership was identified, the study queried whether love expression category membership knowledge would increase understanding of the specific action behaviors associated with each category type. Additionally, the study examined whether or not a change of emotional state would result from an increased understanding of the action behaviors associated with each love language category. Furthermore, the study focused on how love language expression knowledge would influence behavioral accommodations accordingly in the absence of any identified extrinsic motivation to do so. The study also considered whether an effort to make a behavioral love expression accommodation would be recognized as such, given only a brief description of Chapman's love language categories. Finally, statistical analyses of the self-reported responses of the research participants were completed to determine if there were gender differences between the participants' survey responses. |
