THE FACTOR ANALYSIS OF STUDENT COMPANIONATE LOVE

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to analyze the factors of companionate love and levels of student companionate love. The population were 50,373 students who studying of secondary education area in Bangkok of academic year 2011. The samples were 1400 students who studying in grade 2 of,sampling by multistage random sampling method. The research instruments was 60 items of companionate love test with .95 reliability coefficient (alpha). Statistics method with mean and Standard Deviation. were used to analyze the data.

The results of the study were as follows : 1. Both exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis supported and confirmed that companionate love consisted of the three structural factors with thirteen componential indexes: the first the factor of sensory perceptions of cognition; remind, value, positive thinking and acceptance. the second was the factor of sensory perceptions of feeling; attachment, care, trust, empathy and happiness. the third was the factor of sensory perceptions of behavior; sacrifice, helping, consultant and intimate communication. These three factors were suitable to the empirical data of high loading at the .05 statistic significant level and could be used as the instrument to measure the companionate love functioning factors. 2. The companionate love were considering that the scores of sensory perceptions of cognition factor and behavior factor were in hight level but sensory perceptions of feeling factor score was in medium level.