• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.304-314
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• 2020

This cross-sectional descriptive study investigated the influence of romantic relationships' characteristics, self-esteem and sexual autonomy on limerence in dating relationships among female college students who had or were currently engaged in a dating relationship. The data was collected through self-reported structured questionnaires from 167 female Korean college students using convenient sampling methods from November 25, 2012 to December 20, 2012. The data was analyzed using t-tests, one-way analyses of variance, Scheffe's test, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and multiple linear regression analysis with the IBM SPSS 23.0 program. The results showed that a significant difference was found in limerence according to the frequency of experiencing romantic breakup (F=4.16, p=.003), and limerence in dating relationships was negatively correlated with self-esteem (r=-.31, p<.001) and sexual autonomy (r=-.21, p=.006). Self-esteem and the frequency of romantic breakups explained 20% of limerence in dating relationships among the participants (F=8.03, p<.001). Therefore, as a strategy to solve the problems related to limerence during the period of dating, cognitive and educational interventions are needed to strengthen the self-esteem and sexual autonomy of college students who have had a high number of separations. In addition, early screening of college students with risk factors for limerence and providing problem-solving based counseling will help improve their psychological health.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.479-490
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• 2017

The study analyzed the relationship between dating violence and limerence and ruminative response in romentic relationship. The subjects were 205 college students who had experience of dating. And mean age of subjects was 22.1 years. Analysis methods were correlation analysis, ANOVA, two-step cluster analysis, and multinomial logistic regression analysis. The results of this study are as follows. First, self-reproach ruminative respone were significantly higher the victim group and perpetrator victim group than the general group. Second, all sub-factors of ruminative respone were significantly higher the victim group and perpetrator victim group than the general group. Third, the self-reproach ruminative respone was significant positive explanatory variable on dating violence. Fifth, the victim limerence experience significantly increased the odds ratio of victim group of dating violence by 3.3 times, and that of perpetrator victim group of dating violence by 10.9 times. Based on these findings, he discussed the importance of dating violence and the importance of limerence and rumination.