Abstract
In Chapman's (1992) book, The five love languages: The secret to love that lasts, he made the claim that the key to marital happiness is identifying and 'speaking' your partner's primary love language. Chapman identified five primary love languages: Acts of Service, Physical Touch, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, and Words of Affirmation. His theory states that when there is a mismatch between how one partner prefers to express love and the other partner prefers to receive love, the receiving partner will have an 'empty love tank' despite their partner's best efforts. Chapman's theory is popular among laypeople and often used in clinical settings, but a scale to measure his proposed 5 love languages has yet to be empirically validated. Hypotheses 1. The five-factor model will be the best fit for data. 2. The five factors will match Chapman's proposed love languages.