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Loving and Self-Worth: A Systematic Review of Self-Esteem and Love Styles Among Emerging Adults

Author(s) Ms. Khushi Ghawri, Ms. Poorva Dubey
Country India
Abstract How people love and how they regard themselves are seldom independent. This review examines the relationship between self-esteem and love styles, the characteristic orientations toward romantic love first described by Lee (1973) and made measurable by Hendrick and Hendrick (1986), in young adults, a stage of life when romantic commitments and self-definition take shape together. Reporting followed the PRISMA 2020 guidance. Six databases were searched for peer-reviewed studies published between 2016 and 2026, written in English, available in full text, and appearing in first- or second-quartile (Q1/Q2) journals; fourteen studies met these criteria and were synthesised narratively. Across the evidence, self-esteem is associated fairly consistently with the anxious, possessive orientation known as mania, which tends to accompany lower self-worth, whereas the passionate, intimacy-seeking style of eros is more common among people whose self-regard is secure. The relationship is not a simple line of cause and effect. Attachment insecurity, narcissistic and dark personality traits, and gender each condition it, and longitudinal work indicates that relationship experiences shape self-esteem at least as forcefully as self-esteem shapes how young adults love. Self-esteem is therefore best read as one node in a wider network of self- and relationship-related processes rather than a single determinant of romantic style. The most pressing gap is the scarcity of studies that measure both constructs directly in the same young-adult sample.
Keywords self-esteem, love styles, love attitudes, young adults, emerging adulthood, romantic relationships
Published In Volume 8, Issue 4, July-August 2026
Published On 2026-08-28
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i04.86648
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