The Phenomenon of Love Addiction

Purpose: a new questionnaire said to measure partner addiction was offered and tested. Methods: Participants included 491 undergraduate students. In addition to completing the two new partner addiction scales, they completed several questionnaires serving as independent variables including the Attachment and Clinical Issues Questionnaire (ACIQ), the CAGE, a scale for alcohol abuse, the DCAGE measure of drug abuse, two tests for Borderline Personality Disorder, a measurement of Partner Abuse and finally the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) questionnaire. Results. Significant correlations were found between Partner Addiction scales and measures of mixed attachment in the ACIQ as well as measurements of psychological, physical, and sexual abuse while growing up by the ACE. Significant correlations were also found between the scale of partner addiction and measures of partner abuse, the borderline scales, and a multitude of clinical issues such as anger, anxiety, need for control, and denial of feelings, jealousy, rumination, perfectionism, shame and mistrust. Discussion. Results such as these provide evidence that the scale of Partner Addictions has good predictive, or concurrent validity to scales theorized to be affected by the phenomenon of partner abuse