A study of university students’ level of self-disclosure in their romantic relationship and love-styles

This study aimed to examine the relationship between the level of self-disclosure of university students in their loving relationships and their loving style. The research was conducted at the Faculty of Education of a private university in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in the 2019-2020 school year. This research is a descriptive study based on the relational screening model with a total of 186 students, 135 women and 51 men, selected with appropriate sampling method. The Self-Disclosure Scale was used to measure the level of self-disclosure of students, the Attitudes to Love Scale-Short Form to measure their attitudes towards love and the form of personal information elaborated by the researcher for demographic characteristics. As a result of the findings obtained in the study, there was no significant difference in the level of self-disclosure in the students' loving relationships in relation to demographic characteristics. It was found that there was a significant difference in the subdimension of affective love according to the frequency of the encounter with the partner and the subdimension of love.