The Relationship between Passionate Love with Belief in Free Will, Belief in Determinism and Second-Order Volition

摘要

This study has a purpose to understand the effect of passionate love on the belief in free will and determinism and to observe the interaction effect of second-order volition in moderating the relationship between passionate love with belief in free will and belief in determinism. Passionate love in this study is defined as a state of intense longing for union with a significant other that manifests into a complex functional gamut of appraisals or appreciations, subjective feelings, expressions, patterned physiological processes, tendencies, and instrumental behaviors. Instruments that had been used in the study are The Passionate Love Scale, Free Will and Determinism Scale-PLUS and Second-order Volition Test which constructed by the researchers. This study also has the. Participants of this study were 118 undergraduate students at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Indonesia. The results found that passionate love has no significant effect on belief in free will and determinism. Data analysis using process macro finds no interaction effect of second-order volition in moderating the relationship of passionate love with belief in free will and belief in determinism.