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Toward a triangular theory of love for one's musical instrument
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This article presents an application of a triangular theory of love as it applies to love for musical instruments. The triangular theory comprises three components: intimacy, passion, and commitment. Intimacy, which is primarily emotional, refers to feelings of closeness, connectedness, warmth, communication, and emotional support. Passion, which is primarily motivational, refers to feelings that one cannot live without another, that one needs another in one’s life, and that one cannot even imagine one’s life without the other. Commitment refers to the decision to love and to stay in the relationship indefinitely. These components are applied in the article toward love of musical instruments, and the theory is given as an account of some of the factors that may lead students of musical instruments either to stay with those instruments or to quit playing them. A measure is described that could be used to assess love of musical instruments (and that is currently being validated), and empirical findings from past studies on the triangular theory of love are presented.
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- Sternberg, R. J.
- Affiliations
- College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
- ORCID
- Sternberg, Robert J
- Venue
- Psychology of Music
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2020-11-04
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1747-1757
- ISSN
- 0305-7356
- 1741-3087
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- 10
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- en
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