Development of Culturally-Specific Perception of Romantic Love Scale

Aim of the current research was to develop and validate the indigenous scale on the Perception of Romantic Love (PRLS by following two stages.  In first stage scale was constructed and its psychometric properties were determined. While in stage two, convergent and discriminate validity of the scale was calculated. PRLS is based on those attributes which elicited by n = 40 adults during semi structured interviews and focus group discussions. After following the standard procedure of scale development 99 items were finalized and administered on N =1000 participant with 5 point likert type response format ranged from 1 = strongly disagree and 5 = strongly agree. Final solution of factor analysis retained 48 items with 7 subscales which named as  General, Emotional, Cognitive, Behavioral, Marital, Sexual and Spiritual aspects of love. Chronbach’s alpha reliability coefficient of the total scale was α = .91 and its seven subscales ranged from α = .59 (Behavioral) to α =.78 (Emotional). Thus the split half reliability .85 and test retest reliability .89, inter-item r =.58 and item total correlation r = .84 revealed that the PRLS has high level of internal consistency. Results of convergent validity (with Urdu Passionate Love Scale) reported r = .15 and discriminate validity (with Urdu University of California Los Angeles Loneliness Scale) was achieved r = -.01.Implications of the study were discussed according to the cultural context.