No evidence for differences in romantic love between young adult students and non-students

Much psychological research relies heavily on university student samples. The same can be said of research on romantic love. This study is the first to investigate differences in romantic love expression and experiences between students and non-students experiencing romantic love. Data was drawn from the Romantic Love Survey 2022. Based on a binary logistic regression analysis, we found no association between student status and a number of romantic love proxies, including the number of times in ever in love, when participants fell in love relative to when they started their romantic relationship, intensity of romantic love, obsessive thinking about a loved one, commitment, or frequency of sex per week. The findings suggest that studies investigating romantic love using student samples should not be considered ungeneralizable simply because of the fact that students constitute the sample.